Performative listening
Subtitle: hearing others in qualitative research
By: Chris McRae
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781433126635; 9781433126628; 9781453913512
Subjects: Qualitative Sozialforschung; Listening; Zuhören
Description: Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research offers an alternative theory of listening - as a performative act, or as a relational stance and performance in which listeners ethically engage in an act of learning from others across difference. This theory emerges from an interdisciplinary approach to performance studies, communication, musicology, and critical pedagogy in order to present a nuanced theory of listening as performance that is always linked to questions of context, individual experiences, and cultural expectations. Working from examples of the music and autobiography of Miles Davis, this book offers a clear and practical guide for applying performative listening in the contexts of qualitative, narrative, and arts-based approaches to research and inquiry. By emphasizing the embodied, relational, and creative functions of the highly contextual and cultural performance of listening, Performative Listening presents a theory and method that can be used to rethink the ways scholars and students engage with others in a wide variety of qualitative research and educational contexts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hearing possibilities in listening; title: Listening for beginnings; title: Performative listening; title: A relational ethic of listening; title: Listening performatively: hearing and pedagogy; title: Listening musically: hearing and aesthetics; title: Listening geographically: hearing and critical reflexivity; title: A call to listen.