ABSTRACT
The four cases presented below highlight some of the many issues raised by foregrounding sound and the power of hearing as both object of study and means of inquiry – a theoretical and methodological move which has been integral to the “sensory turn” in the humanities and social sciences. The sensory turn, which commenced in the 1990s, may be seen as an outgrowth of the corporeal turn of the 1980s, when “embodiment” emerged as a paradigm for research in the human sciences (Csordas 1990; Bynum 1995). More on this presently.
