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Speaking for ourselves : conversations on life, music, and autism by Michael B. Bakan; Mara Chasar; Graeme Gibson; Elizabeth J. Grace; Zena Hamelson; Dotan Nitzberg; Gordon Peterson; Maureen Pytlik; Donald Rindale; Amy Sequenzia; Addison Silar is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordinary feats of musical memory, unusually high rates of absolute or'perfect'pitch, and the effectiveness of music-based therapies abound in the autism literature. Meanwhile, music scholars and historians have posited autism-centered explanatory models to account for the unique musical artistry of everyone from Béla Bartók and Glenn Gould to'Blind Tom'Wiggins. Given the great deal of attention paid to music and autism, it is surprising to discover that autistic people have rarely been asked to account for how they themselves make and experience music or why it matters to them that they do. In Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan does just that, engaging in deep conversations--some spanning the course of years--with ten fascinating and very different individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music plays a central part. These conversations offer profound insights into the intricacies and intersections of musi

Author

Michael B. Bakan; Mara Chasar; Graeme Gibson; Elizabeth J. Grace; Zena Hamelson; Dotan Nitzberg; Gordon Peterson; Maureen Pytlik; Donald Rindale; Amy Sequenzia; Addison Silar

Publisher

Oxford University Press, [2018]

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190855857

Subjects

Music, Family & Relationships, Psychology