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

By Cynthia R Nielsen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610972546
• ISBN13: 9781610972543
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"