Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured 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 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.

CONTENIDO:

- Introduction: The Meaning of Musical Time
Music and Time
The Meaning of Form
Music as Symbolism
The Structure of the Book

1. What is 'groove'?
Four Elements of Groove
1 Metronomic Time
2 Syncopation
3 'Deep metricality' or Multi-levelled Meter
4 Back-beat

2. Is Groove African?
The Making of Popular Music
Rhythm in African Music
Historicising Musical Meter

3. Bergsonism and Unmeasurable Time
Bergson's Metaphysics of Time
Deleuze and the Multiplicity of Time
Zuckerkandl's Audible Time

4. Schutz's'Vivid Present' and the Social Time of Music
Schutz's Phenomenology
Music as Phenomenon
Growing Older Together
Making Music
Overcoming the Dichotomy of Inner and Outer

5. Adorno and Reified Time
The Time of jazz
Time in Music
`Serious' Music and Time
Modernism and the Trend towards Stasis
Music and the Empirical World
Subjectivity and Collectivity
Presentness
Adorno's Contribution

6. Meter, Groove and the Times of Capitalism
Abstract Labour and Abstract Time
Exchange and Abstract Time
Monopoly Capitalism and the Discipline of Abstract Time
World Time

7. History, Modernism, and the Time of Music
Time and Narrative
The Structure of History
The Historical Consciousness of Modernity
Groove as a Musical Modernism
Temporal Quality, Quantity and Mensure
The Politics of an Aesthetic of Measured Time

Referentes
Index