Mowitt Percussion

Drumming, Beating, Striking
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8360-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

By emphasizing the specifically percussive articulation of rhythm, this study contributes to the elaboration of critical musicology by both challenging its construction of music as essentially harmonic and by extending the interpretive vocabulary of music

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mowitt, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Schlaginstrumente

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: (Re)percussions

1. The End of Senseless Beating

2. Knocking the Subject

3. Different Strokes for Different Folks

4. Sound of the City: A Musician Is Being Beaten

5. A Drum of One’s Own

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object, also published by Duke University Press.