Shared Musical Lives

Shared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience, discussing the concept of sonification in the context of disability in order to challenge and broaden existing conceptions of disability and music and provide new ways of thinking about the philosophies of music and disability.

Licia CarlsonÂis Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. She is the author ofÂThe Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections, and has co-edited books on disability, and on phenomenology and the arts. She is widely published in the philosophy of disability, and her research interests include the philosophy of music, feminist philosophy, and bioethics. She has taught at Seattle University, Harvard University, and currently lives in the Boston area, where she is a violinist with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra.

Pandemic Preface
Sonification: An Overture
Chapter 1: A Brief Taxonomy of Musical Others
Chapter 2: Musical Selves
Chapter 3: The Epistemic Force of Musical Encounters
Chapter 4: Wordlessness is not Worldlessness: A Lyrical Interlude
Chapter 5: The Musical We
Conclusion: Musical Worlds
Index