Listening Up

An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world’s most unforgettable records and explanations of the methods used to get the very best sound. Listen Up! is both production guide and exclusive backstage pass into the lives of some of the planet’s most iconic musicians. Writing with his brother Chris Howard, Mark Howard provides a rare glimpse into the normally invisible, almost secretive side of the music story: that of the producer and recording engineer.

Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, while the scholarship of many of the academic contributors is informed by their participation in oral storytelling, whether as poets, singers, or visual artists. Its contributions address the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualizing orature and orality, simulations of the oral, the poetics of performance, and reconstructions of the oral.

Listen Up is a comprehensive guide to developing and mastering active listening skills. Drawing on extensive research and personal experience, this book provides practical tips and advice to help readers unlock the secrets of active listening and apply them in various personal and professional settings. The book starts by exploring the benefits of active listening and the various barriers that can hinder effective communication. It then provides a step-by-step guide to developing active listening skills, including staying present, practicing empathy, avoiding judgment, asking questions, and using positive body language. The second part of the book focuses on practical applications of active listening, including personal relationships, conflict resolution, professional settings, customer service, and teaching and mentoring. Each chapter offers specific tips and strategies for applying active listening in these contexts, as well as real-life examples and scenarios to illustrate the principles in action. Listen Up is an essential resource for anyone looking to improve their communication skills and build stronger relationships. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, this book will help you unlock the secrets of active listening and become a more effective communicator in all aspects of your life.

To build successful and productive relationships in the workplace, you need to be a good listener. This issue of TD at Work can help you learn to listen in a way that supports your colleagues and clients. In “Listen Up!,” Michael Burns, Livia Armstrong, and Kat Koppett explain how improv skills rely on listening and explore how those skills can also apply in the workplace. See how listening like an improviser can make you more effective at your job. This issue includes: · tips for better listening · case studies of successful and unsuccessful listening · activities to practice listening skills · a conscious listening primer · an exercise in listening to rants.

Anyone who wants to be more successful at work or at home will find important, new advice in Listen Up. While there are hundreds of books on how to express ourselves clearly, most of us haven't learned how to listen effectively. The second addition of Listen Up! offers practical information, tips and explains: * Why the listener, not the speaker, controls the conversation * The four basic listener styles - People-, Action-, Content-, and Time-Oriented listeners - How to use the power of listening to gain what you want from any conversation - Why people tune out and how you can hold the attention of listeners - How to avoid misunderstandings and increase productivity by listening with intention * How men and women listen differently, and how to bridge the gap * How to listen effectively to kids, teens, and the elderly * How to improve relationships and increase productivity by changing the way you listen Filled with anecdotes, simple and useful tips, and important research findings, Listen Up will help every reader communicate better at home, on the job, and in every social situation.

Communication is a two-way street—we express and we receive information. Doing either without valuing the importance of each leads to a breakdown between ideas and people. This guidebook stresses the importance of being a skilled listener. Readers will understand the necessity and the art of pausing, appreciating, and being ready to receive communication from others.

In Listen Up!, author Brent Gault approaches listening instruction by actively using other musical behaviors (singing, moving, chanting, creating) and aural, visual, and kinesthetic learning modes. This in turn becomes a way to foster in young children a deeper, more meaningful connection with musical material while at the same time strengthening their active listening skills. The book provides teachers with a compendium of sample experiences that utilize music listening excerpts not only to offer an opportunity to listen to select pieces of music, but to also reinforce given musical concepts (rhythm, melody, form) that are made prominent in the selections. While teachers may use Gault's examples exactly as they stand, Gault also provides an opening section of strategies that they may use to develop their own listening lessons based on the ones in the book, with the hope that they will develop their own strategies and lessons in the future. A key selling point for Listen Up! is its dedicated companion website of slides for each lesson, with visual material that students can view and respond to as they listen. An innovative and engaging book-and-website resource, Listen Up! will be of practical interest to elementary music specialists for use in music classrooms. The book will also be a resource for methods teachers working with pre-service music educators in addition to music education undergraduate and graduate students preparing to teach music at the elementary level. Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/listenup http://www.oup.com/us/listenup

Learning how to actively listen and absorb what a person is saying, thinking, and feeling can set the stage for dramatically improved relationships and increased personal success. Most people retain only a fraction of what they hear, resulting in miscommunications and lost opportunities. In Listen Up or Lose Out, communications expert Robert Bolton highlights the underestimated and under-utilized tool of active listening and explains how it can be used to gather perspectives, bridge differences, and resolve problems. Bolton teaches you key communication skills by: breaking down listening into a set of learnable skills such as avoiding the urge to criticize, question, or advise; focusing on the speaker’s point of view; asking the right questions, in the right order; and learning how to read people’s feelings and reflect them back Listen Up or Lose Out explains how one can become a skilled listener who experiences fewer conflicts, makes better decisions, and discovers opportunities that others might miss. Whether personally or in business, could you benefit from better communication? Give listening a try!