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Author Abel, Mark, 1948- author.

Title Groove : an aesthetic of measured time / Mark Abel.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Historical Materialism Book Series
Historical materialism book series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction The Meaning of Musical Time; Music and Time; The Meaning of Form; Music as Symbolism; The Structure of the Book; Chapter 1 What is 'groove'?; Four Elements of Groove; 1 Metronomic Time; 2 Syncopation; 3 'Deep metricality' or Multi-levelled Meter; 4 Back-beat; Chapter 2 Is Groove African?; The Making of Popular Music; Rhythm in African Music; Historicising Musical Meter; Chapter 3 Bergsonism and Unmeasurable Time; Bergson's Metaphysics of Time; Deleuze and the Multiplicity of Time; Zuckerkandl's Audible Time.
Chapter 4 Schutz's 'Vivid Present' and the Social Time of MusicSchutz's Phenomenology; Music as Phenomenon; Growing Older Together; Making Music; Overcoming the Dichotomy of Inner and Outer; Chapter 5 Adorno and Reified Time; The Time of Jazz; Time in Music; 'Serious' Music and Time; Modernism and the Trend towards Stasis; Music and the Empirical World; Subjectivity and Collectivity; Presentness; Adorno's Contribution; Chapter 6 Meter, Groove and the Times of Capitalism; Abstract Labour and Abstract Time; Exchange and Abstract Time; Monopoly Capitalism and the Discipline of Abstract Time.
World TimeChapter 7 History, Modernism, and the Time of Music; Time and Narrative; The Structure of History; The Historical Consciousness of Modernity; Groove as a Musical Modernism; Temporal Quality, Quantity and Measure; The Politics of an Aesthetic of Measured Time; References; Index.
Summary People often talk about the groove of music, but what is it, and what does it mean? Why has groove-based music come to dominate in the West and increasingly across the world?
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Subject Musical meter and rhythm.
Musical meter and rhythm.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Aesthetic of measured time
Other Form: Print version: 9789004242937 9004242937 (DLC) 2014010030
ISBN 9004242945 (electronic book)
9789004242944 (electronic book)
9789004242937 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004242937 (hardback ; alkaline paper)