

Speaking for Ourselves
Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism
Author: Michael B. Bakan
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/21/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Psychology, Psychopathology
Synopsis
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.