Listening In Detail

Author : Alexandra T. Vazquez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822378877

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Listening in Detail by Alexandra T. Vazquez Pdf

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market consumption. Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. "Listening in detail" is a method invested in opening up, rather than pinning down, experiences of Cuban music. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender emerge in fragments and moments, and in gestures and sounds through Vazquez's engagement with Alfredo Rodríguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year career of the vocalist Graciela Pérez, the signature grunt of the "Mambo King" Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban music documentaries of the 1960s, and late-twentieth-century concert ephemera.

Author : Bernard T. Ferrari
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101560549

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Power Listening by Bernard T. Ferrari Pdf

Listening is harder than it looks- but it's the difference between business success and failure. Nothing causes bad decisions in organizations as often as poor listening. But Bernard Ferrari, adviser to some of the nation's most influential executives, believes that such missteps can be avoided and that the skills and habits of good listening can be developed and mastered. He offers a step-by-step process that will help readers become active listeners, able to shape and focus any conversation. Ferrari reveals how to turn a tin ear into a platinum ear. His practical insights include: Good listening is hard work, not a passive activity Good listening means asking questions, challenging all assumptions, and understanding the context of every interaction Good listening results in a new clarity of focus, greater efficiency, and an increased likelihood of making better decisions Good listening can be the difference between a long career and a short one

Author : W. A. Mathieu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780834827677

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The Listening Book by W. A. Mathieu Pdf

The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.

Author : Lesley Blundell,Jackie Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521231361

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Task Listening Teacher's Book by Lesley Blundell,Jackie Stokes Pdf

Extensive notes on how to use the Task Listening material and completed tasks for each unit.

Author : Andrew D. Wolvin,Carolyn Gwynn Coakley
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015028895947

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Perspectives on Listening by Andrew D. Wolvin,Carolyn Gwynn Coakley Pdf

This book provides listening researchers, educators, and practitioners with an analysis of listening behavior from current perspectives developed by scholars concerned with the way humans process oral messages. The chapters offer a useful base for applying what the authors know about the complexities of listening to improving listening skills in personal relationships, academic, work, and social settings. Contributors from communication, education, psychology, reading, audiology, and learning skills fields offer their perspectives on how we can understand listening, extending our present theoretical base into exciting new dimensions.

Author : Arlene Romoff
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781632892362

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Listening Closely by Arlene Romoff Pdf

Imagine what it would be like not to hear a sound--no music, no friendly voices, no children's laughter. Arlene Romoff doesn't have to imagine how it would feel: she lived it. Although she was born with normal hearing, in her late teens it began to slip away, as if someone were lowering the volume of the world around her. Over the next twenty-five years, Arlene began a long, slow descent into deafness so profound that no hearing aid or assistive device could help. The experience was devastating. But then Arlene opted for what she considers a miracle: She got a cochlear implant. Using electrodes threaded into the cochlea, an internal computer chip, and an external computer processor, cochlear implants bypass the damaged portion of the cochlea and stimulate the auditory nerve directly, allowing sound to reach the brain. Amazingly, she could hear again. Arlene's journey, however, isn't just about the magic of technology. What she endured reveals as much about the strength of the human spirit, about the wonders of chance and fate, and about making the most of what life dishes out. For Arlene, events seemed to unfold almost as if they were a part of some elaborate plan: just when she went deaf, her insurance company began paying for the implants. And ten years later, when her old cochlear implant finally failed she received new state-of-the-art technology and underwent yet another metamorphosis--one that helped her continue to counsel others in a similar situation. LISTENING CLOSELY will give you a chance to walk in Arlene Romoff's shoes, to understand the pain of her loss and the joy of once again being able to hear the music of the world. Those suffering from hearing loss--or who have loved one who is--will find Arlene's very special journey both inspirational and informative.

Author : Heinz Zimmermann
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781584205142

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Speaking, Listening, Understanding by Heinz Zimmermann Pdf

"This book results from many years of experience in a 'self-administered' Waldorf school. During those years, I watched the decision-making process unfold through innumerable conversations and committee meetings. It is my hope that this short text can serve as an aid for those seeking to increase their conversational ability. Only such increased competence will enable us to raise the human interaction taking place in any conversation to a higher level." -- Heinz Zimmermann All human activity, whatever the size of the community --whether in business, the family, schools, or politics --is group activity. Such group activity depends upon the ability of human beings to work together consciously in language. Speaking, Listening, Understanding is a book about group conversations, especially those intended to arrive at decisions and/or insights. Various types of conversations are described. In the process, we learn how individual participants, context, and mood can affect the overall process, Exercises, both group and individual, are provided for different kinds of conversations. Rather than the dynamics of group psychology, however, the author starts from the artistic aspects of conversation: namely, language and consciousness. Using examples and anecdotes drawn from many years of work with groups, Zimmermann shows in a straightforward way what can go wrong and why. Then, through a step-by-step articulation of the processes involved in conversation --speaking, listening, and understanding --he shows what kinds of awareness and practices can strengthen the group processes that facilitate creative conversation. This is a valuable resource for any group or community, and it is directed especially toward Waldorf school communities.

Author : William R. Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781532634857

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Listening Well by William R. Miller Pdf

Are you a good listener? How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience. Through clear explanation, specific examples, and practical exercises, Dr. Miller offers a step-by-step process for developing your skillfulness in empathic listening. With a solid basis in sixty years of scientific research, these communication skills are not limited to professionals, and can be learned and applied in your everyday life. Instead of assuming that you know the meaning of what you think you heard, empathic listening lets you develop a more accurate understanding and prevent miscommunication. Empathic understanding can help to deepen personal relationships, alleviate conflict, communicate across differences, and promote positive change. The author also discusses skills for expressing yourself clearly, and for strengthening close relationships and friendships. Through empathic understanding you have access to life experience far beyond your own, and over time, listening well and deeply becomes a way of being, fostering a compassionate and patient acceptance of human frailties--those of others as well as your own.

Author : Hannah Merker
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hearing impaired
ISBN : UCSC:32106011779557

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Listening by Hannah Merker Pdf

One woman's odyssey tempered by the silence that surrounds her, Listening is Hannah Merker's moving and evocative account of her perceptions on the loss and remembrance of sound after an accident causes her deafness in in young adulthood.- Inside flap.

Author : Marc Helgesen,Steven Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521398819

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Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Student's book by Marc Helgesen,Steven Brown Pdf

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Introducing Skills for Understanding is the high-beginning level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences.

Author : Nancy Van Pelt
Publisher : Fleming H. Revell Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0800787064

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Smart Listening for Couples by Nancy Van Pelt Pdf

Most couples know that listening to and talking with each other is important to a healthy and happy marriage. Van Velt offers powerful, practical help for increasing intimacy in a marriage by learning how to talk, listen, and communicate effectively.

Author : Claire Llewellyn
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Awareness
ISBN : 0750232935

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Why Should I Listen? by Claire Llewellyn Pdf

The boy at the centre of this book finds it hard to listen, and consequently gets into all sorts of trouble, such as getting lost in a museum and having to wear a really embarrassing pair of swimming trunks at a friend's party. However, he feels lonely and invisible when no one listens to him, so now he makes an extra special effort to listen, and finds that sometimes listening can bring nice things, such as ice cream!

Author : Jean Gilliam DeGaetano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Listening
ISBN : 1886143374

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Listening and Remembering Specific Details by Jean Gilliam DeGaetano Pdf

Author : Sara Ting
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505863031

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Small Book with a Big Idea by Sara Ting Pdf

"Small Book with a Big Idea, the Power of Listening in a World of Differences," is an engaging and thought provoking book that looks at a skill most of us are born with and have to use every day, yet are we using it to its full potential? Are we aware of how our listening is impacted by the diversity that surrounds us everyday? Are we aware of how technology and multi-tasking impacts our listening? Are we aware of a how cultural difference can impact a doctor's listening? Are we aware if we're approaching a job interview or evaluation with fearful listening? These are a few of the thought-provoking questions I raise and offer a perspective that can invite us to think about listening in a way that is empowering. Many of us are familiar with the expression, think outside the box. What about listening outside the box? A high level executive of one of the largest financial institutions in the US shared a story that demonstrated listening outside the box. He and his team met with one of their biggest clients. After listening to the discussion you won't believe what he told the client and their response. In the medical profession listening is essential in meeting the medical care of a patient. How conscious are doctors and nurses of the impact diversity has on their listening and how they engage? One dramatic story is shared by a colleague of his experience in the ER room that opened his eyes to how his cultural background impacted the doctor's listening and response to his urgent medical need. We all want fulfilling personal relationships that are healthy and vibrant and allow us to express who we are. Listening plays a vital role in creating these relationships. Through personal experience and observations I share thoughts of how listening can help keep relationships alive, bring more harmony, joy and love. We all have the ability to transform our lives just by the way we listen. I hope this book can offer you a new way of listening in a world of differences that brings you more harmony, all the success your heart desires and a truly fulfilling life.

Author : Dylan Robinson
Publisher : Indigenous Americas
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Appropriation (Art)
ISBN : 1517907691

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Hungry Listening by Dylan Robinson Pdf

"This highly theoretical work of ethnomusicology is a reclamation of Indigenous ceremonial and artistic practice arguing that the inclusion and appropriation of Indigenous performers in classical music traditions only enriches the settler nation-state. Robinson gives shape to Western musical and aesthetic practices as well as to Indigenous listening practices in order to eschew traditional (Western) forms of musical analysis. Instead, the work argues that new modes of listening and studying reception, emerging out of critical Indigenous studies, are essential to understanding Indigenous musical expression in ways that do not reify the power of the settler state"--