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Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking
John Mowitt
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Description for Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking
Paperback. Examines drumming and beating as musical practice (musicological meaning), as the channelling of violence or shock (sociological meaning), and as a subjective, embodied agent (psychoanalytic meaning). This title contributes to the cultural studies, popular and critical musicology, the theorisation of the body, and the sociology of music. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVRJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Percussion is an attempt—in the author’s words—to make sense of "senseless beating," to grasp how rhythm makes sense in music and society. Both a scholar and a former professional drummer, John Mowitt forges a striking encounter between cultural studies and new musicology that seeks to lay out the "percussive field" through which beating—specifically the backbeat that defines early rock-and-roll—comes to matter for raced, urban subjects.
For Mowitt, percussion is both an experience of embodiment—making contact in and on the skin—and a provocation for critical theory itself. In delimiting the percussive field, he plays drumming off against the musicological account of ... Read more
Percussion is an attempt—in the author’s words—to make sense of "senseless beating," to grasp how rhythm makes sense in music and society. Both a scholar and a former professional drummer, John Mowitt forges a striking encounter between cultural studies and new musicology that seeks to lay out the "percussive field" through which beating—specifically the backbeat that defines early rock-and-roll—comes to matter for raced, urban subjects.
For Mowitt, percussion is both an experience of embodiment—making contact in and on the skin—and a provocation for critical theory itself. In delimiting the percussive field, he plays drumming off against the musicological account of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822329190
SKU
V9780822329190
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About John Mowitt
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.
Reviews for Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking
“This book contributes subtly and powerfully to the important project of self-reflexively retheorizing musical analysis. Mowitt knits together the most complex cultural theory with the most influential popular music in surprising and illuminating ways.”—Robert Walser, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music