1. Gabriel Marcel, Music and Philosophy, trans. By Stephen Maddux and Robert E. Wood, (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005), 17.
2. Tobin Siebers, Disability Aesthetics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2010), 3.
3. Licia Carlson, “Cognitive Ableism and Disability Studies: Feminist Reflections on the History of Mental Retardation,” Hypatia: Special Issue on Feminism and Disability, Part I, 16 no.4 (Fall 2001): 124–46.
4. Licia Carlson, The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010).
5. My reflections here have been enormously enriched by these works on disability and music. These include: Joseph Straus, Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music; Alex Lubet, Music Disability and Society (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011);