Off beat : pluralizing rhythm / editors, Jan Hein Hoogstad and Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoogstad, Jan Hein.

Stougaard Pedersen, Birgitte.

Series:

Thamyris intersecting ; no. 26 (2013)

Thamyris/Intersecting : place, sex, and race, 1570-7253 ; no. 26 (2013)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhythm--Social aspects.

Rhythm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm.

Contents:

℗©...Y tu, que has hecho de mis ritmos? : the Buena Vista Social Club and the repeating island / Timothy Yaczo

Turning the machine into a slovenly machine : Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and I Feel Love / Tilman Baumgärtel

Aesthetic potentials of rhythm in hip hop music and culture : rhythmic conventions, skills, and everyday life / Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

Overcome the pain : rhythmic transgression in heavy metal music / Dietmar Elflein

Kairos, the rhythm of timing / Marie Gelang

Rhythm and balance in sculpture and poetry / Lena Hopsch and Eva Lilja

Subversive rhythms : postcolonial prosody and Indo-Anglian poetry / Peter Groves

AlgoRHYTHMs everywhere : a heuristic approach to everyday technologies / Shintaro Miyazaki

Invisibility's beat : Ralph Ellison, rhythm, and cinema's blind field / Jodi Brooks

The good foot : James Brown's revolutionary rhythmic interventions / Jan Hein Hoogstad.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-012-0887-5

OCLC:

858764921

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401208871 DOI