Michael Gallope - "The Musician as Philosopher" - Travis A. Jackson

Michael Gallope will discuss The Musician as Philosopher. Michael will be joined in conversation by Travis A. Jackson. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

At the Co-op

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About the Book: The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice Coltrane, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell. It contends that these musicians—all of whom are understudied and none of whom are traditionally taken to be composers—not only challenged the rules by which music is written and practiced but also confounded and reconfigured gendered and racialized expectations for what critics took to be legitimate forms of musical sound. From a broad historical perspective, their arresting music electrified a widely recognized social tendency of the 1960s: a simultaneous affirmation and crisis of the modern self.

About the Author: Michael Gallope is associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, as well as affiliate faculty in the Department of American Studies and the program in Moving Image Studies.

About the Interlocutor: Travis A. Jackson is associate professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (University of California Press, 2012), an ethnographic examination of New York's straight-ahead jazz scene in the 1990s.