Quotes from Susan McClary

For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.

Yet the fact that most listeners do not know how to account for the overwhelming push for closure they experience in this music means that it often seems like a force of nature rather than a human ideological construct.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.