About the Author

Kathleen Marie Higgins is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Music of Our Lives and Nietzsche's "Zarathustra."

Reviews

"The Music between Us approaches the question of music through a vast amount of recent and fascinating work that implicates, if not demonstrates, music's central place in human nature: thought, feeling, synesthesia, language, and community. It eschews claims of metaphysical essence or universals, instead speaking to deep and normative aspects of the musical in human life and behavior. Assembling an extraordinary amount of data and results from cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience, ethnomusicology, and sociology, Kathleen Marie Higgins's book is worth reading purely for its compendium effect." (Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan)"