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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.