Finding the Beat

Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music

AvNathan Hesselink

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Finding the Beat explores humankind’s ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it. Anyone who has attended a concert, gone to a club, or watched a sporting event has witnessed and/or participated in tapping, clapping, or dancing along with a piece, song, or chant. It doesn’t matter who or where you are in the world—as humans we spend a lot of time taking pleasure in matching our bodily movements with a perceived beat. Drawing upon diverse examples from the North American and British rock repertoire, Nathan Hesselink demonstrates that listeners are gripped in deep, compelling, and socially meaningful ways when musicians play with or against expectations set up by entrainment. Via musicology, music theory, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and cognitive neuroscience, he illustrates the creative, aesthetic, and participatory pleasure and wonder afforded by our collective ability to find the beat.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-18
Mått:147 x 224 x 10 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501393013

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Nathan Hesselink is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a previous Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Asian Studies. The author/editor of four books and 16 articles on Korean traditional drumming and dance, he has recently published on Radiohead, the Police, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

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Finding the Beat is an engaging, comprehensive, and illuminating insight into our innate understanding of entrainment. I must admit that I had real difficulty in finding the beat when I first heard Thom play Pyramid Song. Nathan’s book has helped me realise that maybe I wasn’t winging it quite so much as I thought, as I picked my own route through the rhythmic possibilities of that song.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgments1. Preamble2. Ambiguity, Rhythm, and Participation in Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song”3. Rhythmic Play, Compositional Intent, and Communication in Rock Music4. The Backbeat as Expressive Device in Rock Music5. Entrainment and the Human-Technology Interface, Historical and Technological Considerations6. Entrainment and the Human-Technology Interface, Sociological and Aesthetic Considerations7. Radiohead, Oxford, and a Rhythmic Holy GrailAppendix: Vancouver and Los Angeles CrewsBibliographyIndex