Sound : stories of hearing lost and found

The Resource Sound : stories of hearing lost and found
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Sound : stories of hearing lost and found
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stories of hearing lost and found
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Bella Bathurst
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Language
eng
Summary
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again. Sound draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and - as Bella eventually did - to get it back, and what that teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise. She investigates the science behind deafness, hearing loss among musicians, soldiers and factory workers, sign language, and what the deaf know about these subjects that the hearing don't. If sight gives us the world, then hearing - or our ability to listen - gives us each other. But, as this engaging and intelligent examination reveals, our relationship with sound is both personal and far, far more complex than we might expect
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
NLE
Dewey number
305.9082
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
adult

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