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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 20th 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 who, like Adorno, criticise popular music's metrical regularity.

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Introduction: The Meaning of Musical Time Chapter 1: What is ‘groove’ Chapter 2: Is groove African Chapter 3: Bergsonism and unmeasurable time Chapter 4: Schutz’s ‘vivid present’ and the social time of music Chapter 5: Adorno and reified time Chapter 6: Meter, groove and the times of capitalism Chapter 7: History, modernism, and the time of music Bibliography Index

Groove: An Aesthetic Of Measured Time: Historical

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      Publisher: Haymarket Books
      Publication Date: 09/02/2016
      ISBN13: 9781608464845, 978-1608464845
      ISBN10: 1608464849

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 20th 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 who, like Adorno, criticise popular music's metrical regularity.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: The Meaning of Musical Time Chapter 1: What is ‘groove’ Chapter 2: Is groove African Chapter 3: Bergsonism and unmeasurable time Chapter 4: Schutz’s ‘vivid present’ and the social time of music Chapter 5: Adorno and reified time Chapter 6: Meter, groove and the times of capitalism Chapter 7: History, modernism, and the time of music Bibliography Index

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