![]() ![]() "We were in touch with some deaf people the other day going to see Bruce Springsteen. "It's far more than just the audio signal coming out of the amplifiers," Jacob Adams, research and campaigns manager for Attitude Is Everything, a UK-based accessibility initiative. That emotion can be communicated through swagger of a performer or the sway of the crowd or through vibrations, which many deaf listeners have also found ways to amplify. If I weren't deaf, and had an amazing voice, I would probably be a singer/performer, because music - to me - is pure emotion shared effortlessly." "I love the feeling of the bass and how the vocals tickle my eardrums as well - especially when I crank up the volume. "It varies for all of us, just like it does for hearing people," JoAnn Benfield, deaf performer, shared in an email conversation. ![]() Music is not only a hearing person's game. It's impossible to summarize the deaf community's relationship with music with any sort of catch-all declaration of love. ![]()
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