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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108779517

Book description

The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to showcase the drum kit, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, as a site worthy of analysis, critique, and reflection. Providing readers with an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the instrument, this book will be a valuable resource for students, drum kit studies scholars, and all those who want a deeper understanding of the drum kit, drummers, and drumming.

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‘A useful gathering of writings in an emerging area of scholarship … Recommended.’

M. D. Jenkins Source: Choice Magazine

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Contents


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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
    pp i-i
  • Cambridge Companions to Music - Series page
    pp ii-vi
  • The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit - Title page
    pp vii-vii
  • Copyright page
    pp viii-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-x
  • Figures
    pp xi-xi
  • Tables
    pp xii-xii
  • Music Examples
    pp xiii-xiii
  • Notes on Contributors
    pp xiv-xviii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-4
  • Part I - Histories of the Drum Kit
    pp 5-64
  • 1 - The Drum Kit in Theory
    pp 7-20
  • 2 - Historically Informed Jazz Performance on the Drum Kit
    pp 21-33
  • 3 - Towards a Cultural History of the Backbeat
    pp 34-51
  • Part II - Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance
    pp 65-138
  • 5 - The Drum Kit beyond the Anglosphere
    pp 67-78
  • The Case of Brazil
  • 6 - Drum Kit Performance in Contemporary Classical Music
    pp 79-93
  • 7 - Theorizing Complex Meters and Irregular Grooves
    pp 94-111
  • 8 - Shake, Rattle, and Rolls
    pp 112-125
  • Drumming and the Aesthetics of Americana
  • Part III - Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit
    pp 139-194
  • 10 - Studying Hybrid and Electronic Drum Kit Technologies
    pp 141-155
  • 12 - Mentorship
    pp 168-180
  • Jazz Drumming across Generations
  • 13 - Leadership
    pp 181-194
  • The View from behind the Kit
  • Part IV - Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity
    pp 195-258
  • 14 - The Meaning of the Drumming Body
    pp 197-209
  • 15 - Disability, Drumming, and the Drum Kit
    pp 210-221

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