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

by Cynthia R. Nielsen

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498280112
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	09/16/2015
Series:	20150916
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	122
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Cynthia R. Nielsen has taught philosophy and ethics for nearly a decade, at institutions such as Villanova University and the University of Dallas. Nielsen's work is interdisciplinary and her research interests include ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, and the philosophy of music. She is the author of Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue: On Social Construction and Freedom (2013).
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.