Listening with Your Whole Body: Better Hearing Through the Somatic Experience of Sound
What can you do to improve your own hearing and listening?? How can you get more joy out of music, listen more effective
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Table of contents :
Foreword – xi
Dedications and Acknowledgements – xv
Part One: Basics of Hearing and Listening – 1
Chapter 1: Sound is a Spatial Event – 1
Chapter 2: If a Tree falls in the Forest – 7
Chapter 3: Sensing and Attending – 9
Chapter 4: A Pair of Impairments – 13
Chapter 5: The Visible Ear I – 15
Chapter 6: The Visible Ear II – 19
Chapter 7: Vibrating Bodies I – 21
Chapter 8: Vibrating Bodies II – 25
Chapter 9: Particle and Wave – 29
Chapter 10: Music and Cognition – 33
Part Two: Growing up Listening, or Not – 35
Chapter 11: Rumi’s Tongue, Einstein’s Tongue, & Yours – 35
Chapter 12: Mirroring and Abandonment – 41
Chapter 13: Walk and Talk: The Great Separation – 45
Chapter 14: Listening and Language Learning – 47
Part Three: Back to the Roots of Meaning – 49
Chapter 15: Resonance, Harmony and Entrainment – 49
Chapter 16: Rumi and the Poetry of Reconnection – 55
Chapter 17: Rilke and the Mythology of Reconnection – 57
Chapter 18: The Sociobiology of Reconnection – 61
Part Four: Some Difficulties – 65
Chapter 19: Closing the Doors of Perception – 65
Chapter 20: Rooms for Improvement – 71
Chapter 21: The Assault on the Ears – 75
Chapter 22: Tinnitus – 79
Chapter 23: The Shadow of Language Itself – 87
Chapter 24: Body Armour: Pro and Con – 93
Part Five: Listening to Music and Language – 95
Chapter 25: The Hang of Listening – 95
Chapter 26: Listening to Words – 97
Part Six: Listening out of the Box – 101
Chapter 27: Perception: Left, Right, and 360 Degrees – 101
Chapter 28: Why are Whales Big? – 107
Chapter 29: Muscles and Tubes – 113
Chapter 30: “I feel like my skin is all ears!” – 117
Chapter 31: Echolocation – 121
Part Seven: Deep Listening, and Deeper – 123
Chapter 32: Musicians Together – 123
Chapter 33 Two Silences – 127
Chapter 34: Listening-without-an-Object – 129
Part Eight: Afterword – 133
Appendix I: Short Exercises: Reprise – 139
Appendix II: A Home Listening Practice – 141
Appendix III: Imagining an Integrative Approach – 145
Appendix IV: The Work of Alfred Tomatis – 151
Appendix V: A Piano Tuner’s Way in Listening – 155
Bibliography – 159
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