John Mowitt
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Percussion

Drumming, Beating, Striking

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Percussion is an attempt-in the author’s words-to make sense of "senseless beating," to grasp how rhythm makes sense in music and society. Both a scholar and a former professional drummer, John Mowitt forges a striking encounter between cultural studies and new musicology that seeks to lay out 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 an experience of embodiment-making contact in and on the skin-and a provocation for critical theory itself. In delimiting the...