Finding the Beat: Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music
Author:   Nathan Hesselink (Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9781501392979


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   06 October 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Nathan Hesselink (Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501392979


ISBN 10:   1501392972
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   06 October 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Preamble 2. Ambiguity, Rhythm, and Participation in Radiohead's Pyramid Song 3. Rhythmic Play, Compositional Intent, and Communication in Rock Music 4. The Backbeat as Expressive Device in Rock Music 5. Entrainment and the Human-Technology Interface, Historical and Technological Considerations 6. Entrainment and the Human-Technology Interface, Sociological and Aesthetic Considerations 7. Radiohead, Oxford, and a Rhythmic Holy Grail Appendix: Vancouver and Los Angeles Crews Bibliography Index

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Finding the Beat is an engaging, comprehensive, and illuminating insight into our innate understanding of entrainment. I must admit that I had real difficulty in finding the beat when I first heard Thom play Pyramid Song. Nathan’s book has helped me realise that maybe I wasn’t winging it quite so much as I thought, as I picked my own route through the rhythmic possibilities of that song. * Philip Selway, drummer for Radiohead * In this thought-provoking and richly interdisciplinary study, Nathan Hesselink takes us on a fascinating musical journey—one that appropriately begins and ends with Radiohead—in search of a better understanding of that crucial defining feature of rock music, “the beat.” Finding the Beat will be essential reading not only for rock scholars but also anyone interested in music cognition, rhythm and meter, or the analysis of popular music more broadly. * Mark Spicer, Professor of Music, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *


In this thought-provoking and richly interdisciplinary study, Nathan Hesselink takes us on a fascinating musical journey-one that appropriately begins and ends with Radiohead-in search of a better understanding of that crucial defining feature of rock music, the beat. Finding the Beat will be essential reading not only for rock scholars but also anyone interested in music cognition, rhythm and meter, or the analysis of popular music more broadly. * Mark Spicer, Professor of Music, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *


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Nathan Hesselink is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a previous Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Asian Studies. The author/editor of four books and 16 articles on Korean traditional drumming and dance, he has recently published on Radiohead, the Police, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

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