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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.

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Author:   Mark Abel
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   73
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9789004242937

ISBN 10:   9004242937
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   22 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Meaning of Musical Time Chapter 1: What is ‘groove’ Chapter 2: Is groove African Chapter 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 Index Bibliography 351 Index

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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.

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