| Description |
1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Thamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race ; v. 26 |
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Thamyris intersecting ; no. 26.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- ¿Y Tú, Qué Has Hecho De Mis Ritmos? The Buena Vista Social Club and the Repeating Island -- Turning the Machine into a Slovenly Machine: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and "I Feel Love" -- Aesthetic Potentials of Rhythm in Hip Hop Music and Culture: Rhythmic Conventions, Skills, and Everyday Life -- Overcome the Pain: Rhythmic Transgression in Heavy Metal Music -- Kairos, the Rhythm of Timing -- Rhythm and Balance in Sculpture and Poetry -- Subversive Rhythms: Postcolonial Prosody and Indo-Anglian Poetry -- AlgoRHYTHMS Everywhere: A Heuristic Approach to Everyday Technologies -- Invisibility's Beat: Ralph Ellison, Rhythm, and Cinema's Blind Field -- The Good Foot: James Brown's Revolutionary Rhythmic Interventions |
| Summary |
This book draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rhythm -- Social aspects
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoogstad, J., 1946- editor.
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Stougaard Pedersen, Birgitte, editor.
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| LC no. |
2013370945 |
| ISBN |
9789401208871 |
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9401208875 |
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