Learning to Hear - Maslen, Sarah

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Résumé :
Sarah Maslen uncovers tricks of the trade and forms of communal assistance for crafting largely unconscious practices to hone hearing....

Sommaire:
As we live our daily lives, our sense of hearing seems to be something that we simply have rather than something that we actively or intentionally do. In some specific cases people an active engagement with auditory experience is something participants must learn, and in doing so, develop their ability to hear and the information they gather from it in a new way. What does it mean to develop one's sense of hearing and how does this change one's experience of the world? In Learning to Hear Sarah Maslen investigates some of the strategies and techniques for developing one's ability to hear in the diverse domains of medicine, music, outdoor adventuring, and Morse Code operation. After uncovering tricks of the trade and various forms of collective support for improving hearing in each domain, she brings together the commonalities across folk strategies for crafting an ability to hear. As a whole, the four cases show that hearing is more complex and varied than is ordinarily assumed, depending on competencies that extend beyond the ear-- Provided by publisher....