The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Matt Brennan
Edited by Joseph Michael Pignato
Edited by Daniel Akira Stadnicki
SeriesCambridge Companions to Music
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 175,Width 250
Category/GenrePerformance art
Music
20th century and contemporary classical music
Percussion instruments
ISBN/Barcode 9781108489836
ClassificationsDewey:786.9
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 June 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

'A useful gathering of writings in an emerging area of scholarship ... Recommended.' M. D. Jenkins, Choice Magazine