Cynthia R. Nielsen

Interstitial Soundings (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498280112
• Artikelnr.: 55266932

Autorenporträt

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.