There is a battle being waged about music, about why we like it so much and why we have it at all. On one side, we have cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker, championing the “auditory cheesecake” team, those who believe music to be a non-evolutionarily crucial, although pleasant, side effect of our development of…
Emma Hooper
Emma Hooper is an author, musician and academic. Her next book, A Long Sound, A Low Sound, will be published by Penguin Canada in 2018. She teaches pop-music sociology at Bath Spa University. Although Emma lives in the United Kingdom, she comes home to Alberta to cross-country ski as often as she can. www.emmahooper.ca