Abel, Mark, 1948-

Groove an aesthetic of measured time / [electronic resource] : Aesthetic of measured time Mark Abel. - 1 online resource (p.) - Historical materialism book series, 73 1570-1522 ; .

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" 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. Drawing on materialist interpretations of art and culture, Mark Abel engages with aesthetic arguments, challenging in particular Adorno's critique of popular music. 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"--Provided by publisher.

9789004242937 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004242944 (electronic book)

2014010030


Musical meter and rhythm.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

ML3850 / .A16 2014

781.2/2