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Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy, and also History and Aesthetics of Jazz, at Durham University, UK. He was also until recently Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, Perth, and has taught music aesthetics at Hong Kong University.

He specialises in aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, J.S. Mill and Wittgenstein, and has published Aesthetics and Music (Continuum, 2007), Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (University of Michigan Press, 2007), The Self In Question: Memory, the Body and Self-Consciousness (Palgrave, 2013), and Scruton's Aesthetics, edited with Nick Zangwill (Palgrave, 2011).

The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and "On Certainty" will appear in 2014, an
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An Interview with Ornette Coleman

One musician I’ve been thinking about, and listening to, a lot is Ornette Coleman, who died last week. That generation that formed bebop and then what I called the heroic decade of modern jazz, the decade of avantgardism roughly 1955-65, are passing – the only major figures left are Sonny Rollins and Lee Konitz (Cecil Taylor isn’t playing any more). Most revolutions also show a continuity with wha Read more of this blog post »
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