Groove : an aesthetic of measured time / Mark Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Mark, 1948- author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 73.

Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical meter and rhythm.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 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. Tracing the influence of key philosophical arguments about the nature of time on musical aesthetics, Mark Abel draws on materialist interpretations of art and culture to challenge those, like Adorno, who criticise popular music’s metrical regularity. 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: The Meaning of Musical Time

1 What is ‘groove’?

2 Is Groove African?

3 Bergsonism and Unmeasurable Time

4 Schutz’s ‘Vivid Present’ and the Social Time of Music

5 Adorno and Reified Time

6 Meter, Groove and the Times of Capitalism

7 History, Modernism, and the Time of Music

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-24294-5

OCLC:

893333536

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004242944 DOI