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Audition shapes focus and distraction: a history of the attentive ear.

The Attentive Ear

Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity in the Long Nineteenth Century

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    368 pages

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    22 September 2026

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Summary

An interdisciplinary history of auditory attention that demonstrates the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distraction

Over the past decade, attention and its perceived opposite, distraction, have become sites of sustained anxiety and debate. Questions around attentive economies, histories, and cognitive modes have surfaced across a range of disciplines from cultural studies to computer science, philosophy, and medicine.

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ISBN-13:9781512829945
ISBN-10:1512829943
Author:Francesca Brittan, Carmel Raz
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:University of Pennsylvania Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:22 September 2026
Dimensions:152mm x 229mm
Series:Sound in History
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About The Author

Francesca Brittan

Francesca Brittan is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University.

Carmel Raz is Assistant Professor of Music at Cornell University.

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