Michael B. Bakan
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- July 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190855833
- eISBN:
- 9780190855864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190855833.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Psychology of Music
“I sort of ‘think in music’ in the same way Temple [Grandin] says she ‘thinks in pictures,’ ” states the autistic professor, social activist, and singer Elizabeth J. “Ibby” Grace. “Music was the ...
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“I sort of ‘think in music’ in the same way Temple [Grandin] says she ‘thinks in pictures,’ ” states the autistic professor, social activist, and singer Elizabeth J. “Ibby” Grace. “Music was the nexus between my self and language for a long time. . . my communicative access,” she explains. “When I relax among myself there are not words going on in my head. There are intervals, tones . . . sometimes in order to think, I structure the thoughts into more like music, or they do themselves like that.” Thinking in music also enables Ibby to function socially “in ways I would have no chance of access to without it . . . . I think I can hear people’s own music sometimes, [which is] how I classify what their soul sounds like to me, [and] I can use this facility to predict if people will be liable to get along with one another.”Less
“I sort of ‘think in music’ in the same way Temple [Grandin] says she ‘thinks in pictures,’ ” states the autistic professor, social activist, and singer Elizabeth J. “Ibby” Grace. “Music was the nexus between my self and language for a long time. . . my communicative access,” she explains. “When I relax among myself there are not words going on in my head. There are intervals, tones . . . sometimes in order to think, I structure the thoughts into more like music, or they do themselves like that.” Thinking in music also enables Ibby to function socially “in ways I would have no chance of access to without it . . . . I think I can hear people’s own music sometimes, [which is] how I classify what their soul sounds like to me, [and] I can use this facility to predict if people will be liable to get along with one another.”
