Percussion
Drumming, Beating, Striking
1st Edition
Published on 7. June 2002
272 pages
978-0-8223-8360-4 (ISBN)
Description
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
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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.
Content
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
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
