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.

This beautiful, profound book explores what happens when we make music together—as composers, improvisers, performers, or listeners. We learn something about ourselves and others and, when the musical worlds we create together include people with disabilities, the knowledge we gain may be ethically important. This is a moving meditation on the power of musical experience to deepen our sense of ourselves and our common humanity.

• Pandemic PrefaceSonification: An OvertureChapter 1: A Brief Taxonomy of Musical OthersChapter 2: Musical SelvesChapter 3: The Epistemic Force of Musical EncountersChapter 4: Wordlessness is not Worldlessness: A Lyrical InterludeChapter 5: The Musical WeConclusion: Musical Worlds Index

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.

This beautiful, profound book explores what happens when we make music together—as composers, improvisers, performers, or listeners. We learn something about ourselves and others and, when the musical worlds we create together include people with disabilities, the knowledge we gain may be ethically important. This is a moving meditation on the power of musical experience to deepen our sense of ourselves and our common humanity.

• Pandemic PrefaceSonification: An OvertureChapter 1: A Brief Taxonomy of Musical OthersChapter 2: Musical SelvesChapter 3: The Epistemic Force of Musical EncountersChapter 4: Wordlessness is not Worldlessness: A Lyrical InterludeChapter 5: The Musical WeConclusion: Musical Worlds Index

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.

This beautiful, profound book explores what happens when we make music together—as composers, improvisers, performers, or listeners. We learn something about ourselves and others and, when the musical worlds we create together include people with disabilities, the knowledge we gain may be ethically important. This is a moving meditation on the power of musical experience to deepen our sense of ourselves and our common humanity.

• Pandemic PrefaceSonification: An OvertureChapter 1: A Brief Taxonomy of Musical OthersChapter 2: Musical SelvesChapter 3: The Epistemic Force of Musical EncountersChapter 4: Wordlessness is not Worldlessness: A Lyrical InterludeChapter 5: The Musical WeConclusion: Musical Worlds Index