Unlocking the groove : rhythm, meter, and musical design in electronic dance music
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Unlocking the groove : rhythm, meter, and musical design in electronic dance music
(Profiles in popular music / Glenn Gass and Jeffrey Magee, editors)
Indiana University Press, c2006
- : pbk
Available at / 2 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Discography: p. 337
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-336) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Unlocking the Groove is a groundbreaking, award-winning, music-driven analysis of electronic dance music (EDM). Author Mark Butler interweaves traditional and non-traditional musical analysis with consideration of the genre's history and social significance, deconstructing several typical examples of electronic dance music and focusing on the interaction of beat and rhythmic structure in creating an overall musical design. Interviews with DJs, listeners, and producers flesh out the book, providing insight into the perceptions and performance world of EDM, and making a vivid case for the musical artistry of EDM disc jockeys. The CD included with the book illustrates the analysis with multiple musical examples, both in excerpts and full songs. Butler's work propels the study of popular music in exciting new directions, and will impact the range from popular music studies, music theory, ethnomusicology, and musicology.
Table of Contents
Contents<\>
Acknowledgments
Part I. Getting into the Groove: Approaching the Study of Electronic Dance Music
Introduction
Chapter 1. The History and Creation of Electronic Dance Music
Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Rhythm and Meter in Electronic Dance Music
Part II. Electronic Dance Music and Interpretive Multiplicity
Chapter 3. Ambiguity
Chapter 4. Metrical Dissonance
Part III. Electronic Dance Music and the Epic
Chapter 5. Multimeasure Patterning
Chapter 6. Form from the Record to the Set
Afterword: Unlocking the Groove
Appendix A. Technical Issues Related to Analysis and Transcription
Appendix B. Technical Issues Related to Field Research
Appendix C. Transcriptions of Tracks Discussed in Chapters 5 and 6
Glossary of Terms from Electronic Dance Music and Music Theory
References
Discography
Index
CD Tracks
1. Example 2.4a. Jeff Mills, "Jerical" (0.18)
2. Example 2.4b. Jeff Mills, "Jerical" (0.10)
3. Example 2.4c. Jeff Mills, "Jerical" (0.10)
4. Example 2.4d. Jeff Mills, "Jerical" (0.17)
5. Example 2.4e. Jeff Mills, "Jerical" (0.25)
6. Example 2.8. 808 State, "Cubik (Kings County Perspective)," mm. 112 (0.28)
7. Example 2.15. Plastikman, "Panikattack" (0.19)
8. Example 2.17. Plastikman, "Panikattack" (1.42)
9. Example 3.1. Carl Craig, "Televised Green Smoke," mm. 115 (0.19)
10. Example 3.2. James Ruskin, "Connected," opening loops (0.19)
11. Example 3.3. James Ruskin, "Connected," second textural combination (0.46)
12. Example 3.6. Carl Craig, "Televised Green Smoke," mm. 1631 (0.19)
13. Example 3.8. Kenny Larkin, "Track," opening (0.24)
14. Example 3.9. Kenny Larkin, "Track" (0.18)
15. Example 3.10. Kenny Larkin, "Track" (0.32)
16. Example 3.11. Kenny Larkin, "Track" (0.38)
17. Example 3.12. Kenny Larkin, "Track" (0.25)
18. Example 4.4. Underworld, "Cups" (0.18)
19. Example 4.5. Underworld, "Cups," entrance of drumbeat (0.11)
20. Example 4.6. Underworld, "Cups" (0.18)
21. Example 4.7. Underworld, "Cups" (0.18)
22. Example 4.8. Mario Piu, "Communication," mm. 93118 (0.50)
23. Example 4.9. Mario Piu, "Communication," mm. 11730 (0.26)
24. Example 4.10. Carl Craig, "Televised Green Smoke," turning the beat around (0.24)
25. Example 4.11. Kenny Larkin, "Track" (0.23)
26. Example 4.17. James Ruskin, "Connected," embedded grouping dissonance (0.17)
27. Example 4.19. James Ruskin, "Connected," displaced embedded grouping dissonance (0.25)
28. Example 5.2. 808 State, "Cubik (Kings County Perspective)," mm. 13138 (0.19)
29. Example 5.3. 808 State, "Cubik (Kings County Perspective)," mm. 1724 (0.20)
30. Example 5.6. Underworld, "Cups" (0.22)
31. Carl Craig, "Televised Green Smoke," complete (6.19)
32. James Ruskin, "Connected," complete (5.42)
33. Kenny Larkin, "Track," complete (6.50)
34. Mario Piu, "Communication (Mas Mix)," complete (7.17)
35. Plastikman, "Panikattack," complete (8.43)
36. Underworld, "Cups," complete (11.45)
by "Nielsen BookData"