Kick It
A Social History of the Drum Kit
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 February 2020
- ISBN 9780190683863
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 159x241x27 mm
- Weight 774 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 illus., 1 musical ex., 31 photos 0
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Short description:
A groundbreaking social history of the drum kit, Matt Brennan's Kick It makes a compelling case for the instrument as one of most important and transformative musical inventions of the modern era.
MoreLong description:
The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era. Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society as a whole--from the bottom up.
An excellent introduction to the past and present of the drumset
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hanging around with musicians
Chapter 1: Clever drummers, primitivism, entrepreneurialism, and the invention of the trap drummer's outfit
· The transatlantic slave trade
· The snare drum, bass drum, and cymbals come together
· The birth of highbrow and lowbrow music
· Being a drummer in nineteenth century America
· Tinkerers, inventors, and entrepreneurs
· The trap drummer's outfit
Chapter 2: Noisy drummers, ragtime, jazz, and the avant-garde
· Ragged time
· "Instruments of a lower order"
· Trap drummers, sound effects, and moving pictures
· Noisy women, immigrant cultures, and Tin Pan Alley
· The birth of jazz
· Quiet in the studio!
· Drums and noise conquer the classical world
Chapter 3: Studious drummers, selling drum outfits, standardization, and stardom
· Fakers versus readers
· Selling the drum kit
· The drum outfit travels the world
· Cymbal making and the invention of the hi-hat
· Swing bands and star drummers
· Slingerland and the standardization of the drum outfit
Chapter 4: Creative drummers, artistry, virtuosity, and playing time
· Prodigies and showmen
· Bebop and the melody of the drum kit
· Drummers and drum makers in dialogue
· The rise of the backbeat
· The drum kit in Britain and the birth of beat groups
· The recruitment of Ringo
· Theorizing creativity on the drum kit
Chapter 5: Working drummers, musical labour, role playing, and authorship
· The job of a session drummer
· The job of a rock star drummer
· The globalization of drum kit production
· Credit where credit is due
· Song authorship and getting paid
Chapter 6: Indispensable drummers, drum machines, and record production
· The drum kit on record
· The multi-track recording studio
· Diasporic drumming practices and dance records
· Rise of the machines
· From the margins to the centre of the mix
· Drummers as producers
· Augmenting the drum kit and drumming without drummers
Conclusion: The tyranny of the snare drum
Endnotes
References
Index
