{"product_id":"interstitial-soundings-philosophical-reflections-on-improvisation-practice-and-self-making-paperback","title":"Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia R. Nielsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. 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 \u003ci\u003eFoucault, Douglass, Fanon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScotus in Dialogue: On Social Construction and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42777474596960,"sku":"9781610972543","price":31.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/PnoopaJdR19781610972543.webp?v=1780062655","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/interstitial-soundings-philosophical-reflections-on-improvisation-practice-and-self-making-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}