Full Description
The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to showcase the drum kit, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, as a site worthy of analysis, critique, and reflection. Providing readers with an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the instrument, this book will be a valuable resource for students, drum kit studies scholars, and all those who want a deeper understanding of the drum kit, drummers, and drumming.
Contents
Introduction Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki and Matt Brennan; I. Histories of the Drum Kit: 1. The drum kit in theory Matt Brennan; 2. Historically informed jazz performance on the drum kit Paul Archibald; 3. Toward a cultural history of the backbeat Steven Baur; 4. Historicizing a scene and sound: the case of Colombia's Música Tropical Sabanera Pedro Ojeda and Juan David Rubio Restrepo; II. Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance: 5. The drum kit beyond the anglosphere: the case of Brazil Daniel Gohn; 6. Drum kit performance in contemporary classical music Ben Reimer; 7. Theorizing complex meters and irregular grooves Scott Hanenberg; 8. Shake, rattle, and rolls: drumming and the aesthetics of Americana Daniel Akira Stadnicki; 9. Drum tracks: locating the experiences of drummers in recording studios Paul Thompson and Brett Lashua; III. Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit: 10. Studying hybrid and electronic drum kit technologies Bryden Stillie; 11. The aesthetics of timekeeping: creative and technical aspects of learning drum kit Carlos Xavier Rodriguez and Patrick Hernly; 12. Mentorship: jazz drumming across generations Joseph Michael Pignato; 13. Leadership: the view from behind the kit Bill Bruford; IV. Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity: 14. The meaning of the drumming body Mandy Smith; 15. Disability, drumming, and the drum kit Adam Patrick Bell and Cornel Hrisca-Munn; 16. Seen but not heard: performing gender and popular feminism on drumming Instagram Vincent Andrisani and Margaret MacAulay; 17. Building inclusive drum communities: the case of hey drums Nat Grant; 18. A window into my soul: eudaimonia and autotelic drumming Gareth Dylan Smith.
