Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time

AvMark Abel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Del 73 i serien Historical Materialism Book Series

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What is the relationship between music and time? How does musical rhythm express our social experience of time? In Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time, Mark Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organising rhythm: groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the twentieth century, and analyses the musical components which make it work.Tracing the influence of key philosophical arguments about the nature of time on musical aesthetics, Mark Abel draws on materialist interpretations of art and culture to challenge those, like Adorno, who criticise popular music’s metrical regularity. He concludes that groove does not simply reflect the temporality of contemporary society, but, by incorporating abstract time into its very structure, is capable of effecting a critique of it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-09-22
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism Book Series
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004242937

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Marxism och kommunism inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Mark Abel teaches on the humanities programme at the University of Brighton, UK. He has also worked extensively as music lecturer and jazz educator and is a performing saxophonist and pianist.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Meaning of Musical TimeChapter 1: What is ‘groove’Chapter 2: Is groove AfricanChapter 3: Bergsonism and unmeasurable time Chapter 4: Schutz’s ‘vivid present’ and the social time of music Chapter 5: Adorno and reified time Chapter 6: Meter, groove and the times of capitalism Chapter 7: History, modernism, and the time of music Bibliography IndexBibliography 351Index