Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind and The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction, and the forthcoming Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams (Liveright, 2026) directs the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University. Her research pursues questions that lie at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences. She was also trained as a pianist.
Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams
A revelatory work—grounded in the author’s own pathbreaking research—that explores the capacity for meaning-making and connection through “musical daydreams.”
Forthcoming:
May 19, 2026 (US: Liveright)
June 11, 2026 (UK: Oneworld)
"Eye-opening... fascinating.... Her book is the message in a bottle, urging us to connect more deeply with our inattention. What emerges in our musical daydreams might be something to hold on to. It might be ourselves." — Sarah L. Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal
