Dan's primary research areas include music (popular, jazz, experimental), cultural studies, and improvisation, with a particular focus on the affective connections between aesthetics and politics. He has taught courses in music history, popular culture, and the humanities, in addition private percussion lessons, improvising ensembles, and workshops. His first monograph, Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life is under contract with University of Michigan Press.

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