Groove
Subtitle: An Aesthetic of Measured Time
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789004242944
Subjects: Time perception; Music, philosophy and aesthetics; Composition (music)
Description: " 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. Drawing on materialist interpretations of art and culture, Mark Abel engages with aesthetic arguments, challenging in particular Adorno's critique of popular music. 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"--Provided by publisher.