Groove: An Aesthetic Of Measured Time - Historical Materialism, Volume 73

In this engaging and original book Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western Music of a new rhythm: Groove.

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

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 organizing rhythm—groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the twentieth century, and analyses the musical components that 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.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Mark Abel, Abel Mark
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2016
• EAN: 9781608464845
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-484-5
• Weight: 395 g
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism Book; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Rhythm and Blues, R’n’B, History of Ideas, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Music reviews & criticism, Popular Music, Music reviews and criticism, Music: styles & genres, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Soul & R 'n B, Soul & R .n. B