Groove: An Aesthetic Of Measured Time: Historical Materialism, Volume 73
Author:   Mark Abel
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   Volume 73
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9781608464845


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   09 February 2016
Format:   Paperback
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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 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.

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Author:   Mark Abel
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   Volume 73
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781608464845


ISBN 10:   1608464849
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   09 February 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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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