Elizabeth Margulis presents TRANSPORTED

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Join us in Remington on Wednesday, May 20, to celebrate the release of Elizabeth Margulis' new book Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams. Elizabeth will be in conversation with Mary Wilternburg.

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About Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

Reliving past heartbreak. Picturing a serene future. Imagining a fantastical scene. Across genres, music has an uncanny ability to carry us into distinct inner worlds.

In Transported, acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid, spontaneous, emotionally charged images, stories, and memories we lapse into while listening to music—and argues that these everyday reveries offer a powerful and underappreciated window into how we think, feel, and connect.

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, ethnography, and revelations from her own teaching and pathbreaking research, Margulis shows not only that musical imaginings are widespread and meaningful—but also that daydreams which seem deeply personal are often widely shared. Music can alleviate anxiety, ignite creativity, and foster connection in our increasingly fragmented era.

At a time when attention is perpetually under siege, Transported makes a powerful case for music as one of the last spaces where the mind is still free to wander—and reminds us that these wanderings are more meaningful and more important to our individual and collective well-being than we’ve ever realized.

Transported releases on Tuesday, May 19 and is available for preorder !

Elizabeth Margulis is Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University. Initially trained as a pianist, she turned to cognitive science to understand music’s transportive power. Her previous scholarly books have won prizes from the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation and has been featured in outlets ranging from NPR’s All Things Considered to the BBC. Transported is her first book for general audiences.

Mary Wiltenburg is an award-winning reporter and teacher, whose print, radio, and multimedia stories profile people and communities, especially children. She has contributed to The Christian Science Monitor, This American Life, Esquire, The Boston Globe Magazine, Marketplace, Nightline, Der Spiegel, and many other outlets, from four continents. She has also worked as an editor and radio producer.

Over the years, she has taught journalism to middle schoolers through college students, from the Missouri Scholars Academy to VOX ATL, The Park School of Baltimore to the Johns Hopkins University graduate program in science writing. These days, she teaches journalism, podcasting, and literature at Friends School of Baltimore and the University of Maryland – Baltimore County.

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