Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music. The main purpose of the book is to investigate how technological mediation - in the age of digital music production tools - has influenced the design of rhythm at the micro level. Through close readings of technology-driven popular music genres, such as contemporary R&B, hip-hop, trip-hop, electro-pop, electronica, house and techno, as well as played folk music styles, the book sheds light on how investigations of the musical-temporal relationships of groove-based musics might be fruitfully pursued, in particular with regard to their micro-rhythmic features. This book is based on contributions to the project Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (RADR), a five-year research project running from 2004 to 2009 that was funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Professor Anne Danielsen, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway

Chapter 1 Introduction, Anne Danielsen; Part I Microrhythm and Rhythmic Structure; Chapter 2 Here, There and Everywhere, Anne Danielsen; Chapter 3 Microtiming and Rhythmic Structure in Clave-Based Music, Ives Chor; Chapter 4 Simultaneous Rhythmic Events with Different Schematic Affiliations, Kristoffer Carlsen, Maria A.G. Witek; Chapter 5 The Concept of Rhythmic Tolerance, Mats Johansson; Chapter 6 Timbral Relationships and Microrhythmic Tension, Kristoffer Yddal Bjerke; Part II Groove and Embodiment; Chapter 7 Rhythm/Body/Motion, Eric F. Clarke; Chapter 8 Moved by the Groove, Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen; Chapter 9 Slave to the Supradiegetic Rhythm, Serge Lacasse; Part III Mediation and Music Production; Chapter 10 Opaque Mediation, Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen; Chapter 11 Microsampling, Paul Harkins; Chapter 12 Real and Unreal Performances, Simon Zagorski-Thomas; Chapter 13 Composing a Performance, Tellef Kvifte;