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Sound Studies is an interdisciplinary field, which looks at the many different ways sound has differed throughout history, with an emphasis on keeping the scope broad. It can be broken up into six main parts, according to the work of Johnathan Stern. These are: Hearing, Listening, Deafness; Spaces, Sites, Scapes; Transduce and Record; Collectivities and Couplings; Aesthetics, Experiences, Interpretation; and Voices. The basic research methods and approaches of sound studies is still being determined by those within it, generally split along the lines of a cultural anthropological approach (Veit Erlmann and Holger Schulze) and one that is more in line with traditional scientific technological studies (Advocated by the journal Social Studies of Science).

Sound scholars look at ways in which sound interacts with the world around it, and the ways in which humans interact with that sound. Some are interested in reaction and change and some focus more on enduring, ‘true’ sound.