Wolf, Richard - Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

Through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories, Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm responds to the critical need for developing richer ways of describing rhythm in all its complexity. Focusing on tensions between the general and the culturally specific, the book considers musics from Africa and Asia, as well as jazz, popular music, and new music of the late 20th century.

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CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
About the Companion Website
Introduction
Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, Christopher Hasty
1. Thinking With and About Rhythm
Christopher Hasty
2. Formative Processes of Durational Projection in Free Rhythm World Music
John Roeder
3. Meter and Rhythm in the Sung Poetry of Iranian Khorasan
Stephen Blum
4. An Approach to Musical Rhythm in Agbadza
David Locke
5. Rhythm and the Physical
Eugene Montague
6. Modern Drum Solos Over Ostinatos
Fernando Benadon
7. Temporal and Density Flow in Javanese Gamelan
Sumarsam
8. Layers and Elasticity in the Rhythm of Noh Songs: Taking Komi and its Social Background
Takanori Fujita
9. Rhythmic Metamorphoses: Botanical Process Models on the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Miriam Rovsing Olsen
10. Mapping a Rhythmic Revolution Through Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Sources on Rhythm and Drumming in North India
James Kippen
11. Time Changes: Heterometric Rhythm in South Asia
Richard Widdess
12. Rhythm, Beat, and Freedom, in South Asian Musical Traditions
Richard K. Wolf
13. New Music - New Rhythm
Christopher Hasty
Bibliography
Glossary
Index