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Subject(s)

• Drum set [Browse]
• Drum set—Social aspects [Browse]
• Drum set—Instruction and study [Browse]
• Drum set—Performance [Browse]

Author

• Brennan, Matt [Browse]
• Stadnicki, Daniel Akira, 1984- [Browse]
• Pignato, Joseph Michael [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]
• Cambridge companions to music. Topics [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

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Contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Notes
• Part I Histories of the Drum Kit
• 1 The Drum Kit in Theory
• The Invention of the Drum Kit
• The History and Future of Studying the Drum Kit
• The Drumscape as a Theoretical Tool
• Conclusions
• 2 Historically Informed Jazz Performance on the Drum Kit
• Misrepresented from the Beginning?
• Drummers Disadvantaged in Early Recordings: Acoustic Age
• Drummers Disadvantaged in Early Recordings: Electric Age
• Beyond the Record
• A Cycle of Influence
• Conclusion
• 3 Towards a Cultural History of the Backbeat
• Backbeating As Signifyin(g) Practice
• Incarceration, Hard Labour, and the Backbeat
• Backbeating in Pentecostal Worship
• Sex and the Backbeat
• Shout Choruses, Afterbeats, and the Kansas City School
• The Backbeat in 1940s Rhythm and Blues
• The Big Beat Takes Over
• 4 Historicizing a Scene and Sound: The Case of Colombia's 'Música Tropical Sabanera'
• A Cosmopolitan Drumming Practice
• On Rhythms and Entextualization
• Merecumbé, Cumbia, and Porro: The Colombian 'Tropical' Sound
• Gaitas and Fandangos Binarios: José Mariá Franco and the Rural-Cosmopolitan Sound
• Closing Remarks
• Part II Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance
• 5 The Drum Kit beyond the Anglosphere: The Case of Brazil
• Historical Overview
• Pioneer Players
• Bossa Nova and Samba Jazz
• Technical Characteristics
• The 'Brazilian Feel'
• Modern Brazilian Drumming
• 6 Drum Kit Performance in Contemporary Classical Music
• Personal Background
• Drummer or Multiple Percussionist?.
• Early Drum Kit Composition Via Jazz Assimilation
• La Création du Monde (1923) by Darius Milhaud
• Drum Kit Composition as Homage
• Bonham (1989) by Christopher Rouse
• Genre Cross-Over in Drum Kit Composition
• The Black Page (1976) by Frank Zappa
• Complexity in Drum Kit Composition
• Ti.re-Ti.ke-Dha (1979) by James Dillon
• Recontextualization in Drum Kit Composition
• Ringer (2009) by Nicole Lizée
• 7 Theorizing Complex Meters and Irregular Grooves
• Punctuated Irregular Cycles
• Split Irregular Cycles
• Ambiguous and Mixed Cases
• 8 Shake, Rattle, and Rolls: Drumming and the Aesthetics of Americana
• Drumming Americana, Accompanying the Folk
• Americana's Fluidity: Mapping a Rhythmic Legacy
• Case Study: Jay Bellerose
• Kit Culture: On Gear
• Developing (and Producing) a Characteristic Drum Sound
• 9 Drum Tracks: Locating the Experiences of Drummers in Recording Studios
• Introduction: Setting Up, Counting In
• First Take: Drummers, Spaces, and Studio Practices
• Second Take: Playing for the Song? Identities, Positionalities, and Habitus
• Third Take: Agency, Creative Practice, and Studio Knowledge
• Final Take: Concluding Thoughts
• Part III Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit
• 10 Studying Hybrid and Electronic Drum Kit Technologies
• Situating the Drum Kit in Popular Music Education
• Teaching Electronic Drum Kit Technologies
• Drivers for This Current Research and Method
• Research Findings and Discussion
• Learning and Teaching Experience
• Working with Notation and Developing Coordination
• Employability
• Desired Course Developments
• Reflection
• 11 The Aesthetics of Timekeeping: Creative and Technical Aspects of Learning Drum Kit
• Creative Framework.
• Curiosity, Creativity, and Musical Expression
• Leveraging the Roles of Drummers in Ensembles
• Technical Framework
• Background
• Procedural Aspects from Method Books
• Towards an Aesthetic of Timekeeping
• Feel-Based Drumming Constructs
• Looking Forward in Teaching and Learning Drum Kit
• 12 Mentorship: Jazz Drumming across Generations
• The Participants
• Method
• Discussion
• The Importance of Mentors
• Challenges of Learning to Play the Drum Kit
• The Unique Place and Space of Drummers
• Something Bigger than Just the Music
• 13 Leadership: The View from behind the Kit
• Leadership in Theory
• The One-Way Street: A Dominant-Linear-Hierarchical Model
• The Two-Way Street: A Visionary-Transformational Model
• The Shared Street: A Plural-Distributed Model
• Leader-Member Exchange
• Leadership in Practice
• Identification and location
• Purpose
• Giving and Receiving
• Part IV Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity
• 14 The Meaning of the Drumming Body
• 'When the Levee Breaks'
• The Biological Body
• The Phenomenological Body
• The Ecological Body
• The Social Body
• The Cultural Body
• The Power of the Drums
• 15 Disability, Drumming, and the Drum Kit
• Drumming and Disability Studies
• Drumming, Disability, and Social Media
• Cornel Plays 'Everlong'
• Enacting Evolution on the Drum Kit
• Final Fill: Conclusions
• 16 Seen but Not Heard: Performing Gender and Popular Feminism on Drumming Instagram
• Emergent Online Communities and Popular Feminism
• Method: A Content Analysis of Drumming Instagram
• Interpreting the Data
• The Ambivalence of Networked Performance
• 17 Building Inclusive Drum Communities: The Case of Hey Drums.
• A Woman's Work
• You Can't Be What You Can't See
• Documentation
• The Importance of Inclusion: Trans and GNC Artists
• Snapshot of Drummers: Diversity
• Outcomes
• Context
• 18 A Window into My Soul: Eudaimonia and Autotelic Drumming
• I Like Playing Drums
• Black Belt Jesus
• Personal Practice
• From Autotelicity To Eudaimonia
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781108806817
• 1108806813
• 9781108803380
• 1108803385
• 9781108779517
• 1108779514

OCLC

1253439970

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