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Percussion is an attempt-in the author's words-to make sense of "senseless beating," to understand how rhythm produces meaning in music and in life. Both a scholar and a former professional drummer, John Mowitt forges a striking encounter between cultural studies and new musicology, seeking to expose the "percussive field" through which beating-specifically the backbeat that defines early rock-and-roll-comes to matter for raced, urban subjects. For Mowitt, percussion is both a bodily experience-making sense of life by touching and playing with the limit of embodiment, the skin-and a vitalising agent for critical theory itself. He examines drumming and beating as musical practice (musicological meaning), as the channelling of violence or shock (sociological meaning), and as a subjective, embodied agent (psychoanalytic meaning). In the process he focuses on such topics as the separation of slaves from their drums, the migration of blacks to urban centres in the North, E.P. Thompson's work on "rough music," Althusserian interpellation and Lacanian repudiation, and psychoanalytic discourse on the "skin ego." Percussion makes an important contribution to cultural studies, popular and critical musicology, the theorisation of the body, and the sociology of music. It will interest students of music and cultural theory as well as readers with a serious interest in the history of music, rock-and-roll, and music theory.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: (Re)percussions 1. The End of Senseless Beating 2. Knocking the Subject 3. Different Strokes for Different Folks 4. Sound of the City: A Musician Is Being Beaten 5. A Drum of One’s Own Notes Works Cited Index

About the Author :
John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object, also published by Duke University Press.

Review :
"This book contributes subtly and powerfully to the important project of self-reflexively re-theorising musical analysis. Mowitt knits together the most complex cultural theory with the most influential popular music in surprising and illuminating ways." - Robert Walser, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822329190
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Drumming, Beating, Striking
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822329190
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Weight: 489 gr


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