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    Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making
    Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making
    Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making
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    Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making

    By Cynthia R. Nielsen

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    In Interstitial Soundings, Cynthia R. Nielsen brings music and philosophy into a fruitful and mutually illuminating dialogue. Topics discussed include the following: music's dynamic ontology, performers and improvisers as co-composers, the communal character of music, jazz as hybrid and socially constructed, the sociopolitical import of bebop, Afro-modernism and its strategic deployments, jazz and racialized practices, continuities between Michel Foucault's discussion of self-making and creating one's musical voice, Alasdair MacIntyre on practice, and how one might harmonize MacIntyre's notion of virtue development with Foucauldian resistance strategies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateSep 16, 2015
    ISBN9781498280112
    Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making
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    Cynthia R. Nielsen

    Cynthia R. Nielsen has taught philosophy, ethics, and religion at the college and university level since 2005. Prior to her appointment at UD, she was a Catherine of Sienna Teaching Fellow at Villanova University, where she taught courses in the Ethics Program, Honors College, and the Peace and Justice Program. Nielsen's research interests and publications are interdisciplinary and have an interstitial quality about them. For example, she has published articles on a wide range of topics and thinkers, including: Augustine, Gadamer, Foucault, Frederick Douglass, mass incarceration, Afro-modernism, jazz, and Catholic Social Teaching. Her current research focuses on bringing Gadamer's reflections on art and the other into conversation with the insights and practices of 20th century music.

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