BOOKS - Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm (Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 26)
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Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm (Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 26)
Author: Jan Hein Hoogstad
Year: January 1, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 12 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 12 MB
Language: English
Off Pluralizing Rhythm 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.
