The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit (Cambridge Companions to Music)

Cambridge University Press, 6/17/2021
EAN 9781108747653, ISBN10: 1108747655

Paperback, 284 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

Introduction Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki and Matt Brennan
I. Histories of the Drum Kit
1. The drum kit in theory Matt Brennan
2. Historically informed jazz performance on the drum kit Paul Archibald
3. Toward a cultural history of the backbeat Steven Baur
4. Historicizing a scene and sound
the case of Colombia's Música Tropical Sabanera Pedro Ojeda and Juan David Rubio Restrepo
II. Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance
5. The drum kit beyond the anglosphere
the case of Brazil Daniel Gohn
6. Drum kit performance in contemporary classical music Ben Reimer
7. Theorizing complex meters and irregular grooves Scott Hanenberg
8. Shake, rattle, and rolls
drumming and the aesthetics of Americana Daniel Akira Stadnicki
9. Drum tracks
locating the experiences of drummers in recording studios Paul Thompson and Brett Lashua
III. Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit
10. Studying hybrid and electronic drum kit technologies Bryden Stillie
11. The aesthetics of timekeeping
creative and technical aspects of learning drum kit Carlos Xavier Rodriguez and Patrick Hernly
12. Mentorship
jazz drumming across generations Joseph Michael Pignato
13. Leadership
the view from behind the kit Bill Bruford
IV. Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity
14. The meaning of the drumming body Mandy Smith
15. Disability, drumming, and the drum kit Adam Patrick Bell and Cornel Hrisca-Munn
16. Seen but not heard
performing gender and popular feminism on drumming Instagram Vincent Andrisani and Margaret MacAulay
17. Building inclusive drum communities
the case of hey drums Nat Grant
18. A window into my soul
eudaimonia and autotelic drumming Gareth Dylan Smith.