Thriving on a Riff JPF Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portrait

Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portrait of performance's capacity to produce what he calls a communism of incommensurability

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The author examines the enduring institutional legacies and policy consequences of each reform period

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Thriving on a Riff JPF Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portraitIn Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter traces the meaning and spirituality of jazz, inviting us to meet a God who not only embraces syncopation but blesses the swing. What does jazz have to do with human spirituality? In Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter shows us how jazz, in its quest for transcendence, bridges the gap between the secular and the sacred and, further, that these