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.
This is a first-of-its-kind text: a collaborative volume dedicated solely to scholarly consideration of the drum kit. It features an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the drum kit, with original contributions by emerging and established scholars and drummers.
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'A useful gathering of writings in an emerging area of scholarship Recommended.' M. D. Jenkins, Choice Magazine
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An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.
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| Introduction |
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Part I Histories of the Drum Kit |
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2 Historically Informed Jazz Performance on the Drum Kit |
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3 Towards a Cultural History of the Backbeat |
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4 Historicizing a Scene and Sound: The Case of Colombia's `Musica Tropical Sabanera' |
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Part II Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance |
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5 The Drum Kit beyond the Anglosphere: The Case of Brazil |
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6 Drum Kit Performance in Contemporary Classical Music |
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7 Theorizing Complex Meters and Irregular Grooves |
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8 Shake, Rattle, and Rolls: Drumming and the Aesthetics of Americana |
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9 Drum Tracks: Locating the Experiences of Drummers in Recording Studios |
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Part III Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit |
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10 Studying Hybrid and Electronic Drum Kit Technologies |
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11 The Aesthetics of Timekeeping: Creative and Technical Aspects of Learning Drum Kit |
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12 Mentorship: Jazz Drumming across Generations |
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13 Leadership: The View from behind the Kit |
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Part IV Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity |
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14 The Meaning of the Drumming Body |
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15 Disability, Drumming, and the Drum Kit |
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16 Seen but Not Heard: Performing Gender and Popular Feminism on Drumming Instagram |
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17 Building Inclusive Drum Communities: The Case of Hey Drums |
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18 A Window into My Soul: Eudaimonia and Autotelic Drumming |
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Matt Brennan is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Glasgow and the author of Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (Oxford University Press, 2020). His previous book, When Genres Collide (Bloomsbury, 2017), was named as one of Pitchfork's 'Favourite Music Books of 2017.' Joseph Michael Pignato, Professor at the State University of New York, Oneonta, is a 'musician, educator, and music business visionary' (Tape Op Magazine). He is co-author of The Music Learning Profiles Project (Routledge, 2017) and leader of the acclaimed avant jazz collective Bright Dog Red, which records for Ropeadope Records. Daniel Akira Stadnicki has worked as a session drummer for over two decades in the Canadian folk, world, and pop music scenes; garnering Juno nominations (2000), Gold Records (2000), Canadian Folk Music Awards (2013), among other accolades. Daniel also works as a music facilitator for socially vulnerable youth in Toronto and Edmonton.
