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The drum : a history / Matt Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Matt, 1980-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drum.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The Drum: A History highlights the different uses and customs associated with drumming and examines how the drum developed across many cultures and over thousands of years before they became the instruments we know today. Bringing its history to the present, Dean considers the modern cultural and commercial face of the drum, detailing its role in military settings, the development of the ""modern drum kit,"" and looking at the continuing evolution of the drum and its role. Finally, drum fans will have at their fingertips the biographi
- Contents:
- What is a drum?
- Drum history
- Western Asia
- Africa
- Europe
- North America and Canada
- South and Central America
- Southern and Eastern Asia
- South East Asia
- Oceania
- The European Orchestra
- Modern drumkit
- Rudiments
- Women drummers
- Drum heads
- Drum sticks
- Education
- Electronic drums
- Recording drums.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-434) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40791-1
- 1-283-43288-9
- 9786613432889
- 0-8108-8171-3
- OCLC:
- 772845784
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