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Learning to Hear: The Auditory Bases of Excellence in Practicing Medicine, Climbing Mountains, Making Music, and Communicating in Morse Code - Couverture rigide

Maslen, Sarah

 
9780231217880: Learning to Hear: The Auditory Bases of Excellence in Practicing Medicine, Climbing Mountains, Making Music, and Communicating in Morse Code
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0231217889 ISBN 13 : 9780231217880
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2025

Synopsis

As we live our lives, hearing seems to be something that we simply have, not something that we do. Yet in a wide variety of occupations and activities, people must develop their hearing skills to achieve proficiency. How do people learn to hear?

This innovative book investigates strategies and techniques for honing hearing in medicine, music, outdoor adventuring, and Morse code operation. Sarah Maslen uncovers tricks of the trade and forms of communal assistance for crafting these largely unconscious practices. She shows that hearing is far more complex than is often assumed and that it depends on competencies that extend beyond the ear. In so doing, Maslen explodes myths of genius and natural talent and the idea that certain skills are the province of particular kinds of people. Overcoming the distance between insiders and outsiders requires access to the collective support that cultivates seemingly natural sense abilities.

Learning to Hear examines vivid and varied cases, such as how doctors listen for a heart murmur, how musicians build the skills to play along with others, how adventurers sense dangers like melting ice or falling rocks while climbing, and how telegraph operators develop a feel for Morse code. A deeply original exploration of the cultivation of hearing, this book offers a new approach to embodied experience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Maslen is a professor of sociology at the University of Canberra, Australia.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231217889
ISBN 13 
9780231217880
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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