Interstitial Soundings

Download or read book Interstitial Soundings written by Cynthia R. Nielsen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.