This article considers Kathleen Marie Higgins’s theory of musical experience. She examines the features of human perception that enable music’s ability to provoke the sense of a democratic, shared, crosscultural experience. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and ethnomusicology, Higgins provides a new understanding of what it means to be musical.
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