The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

Contents

• Introduction Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki and Matt Brennan; I. Histories of the Drum Kit:
• 1. The drum kit in theory Matt Brennan;
• 2. Historically informed jazz performance on the drum kit Paul Archibald;
• 3. Toward a cultural history of the backbeat Steven Baur;
• 4. Historicizing a scene and sound: the case of Colombia's Musica Tropical Sabanera Pedro Ojeda and Juan David Rubio Restrepo; II. Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance:
• 5. The drum kit beyond the anglosphere: the case of Brazil Daniel Gohn;
• 6. Drum kit performance in contemporary classical music Ben Reimer;
• 7. Theorizing complex meters and irregular grooves Scott Hanenberg;
• 8. Shake, rattle, and rolls: drumming and the aesthetics of Americana Daniel Akira Stadnicki;
• 9. Drum tracks: locating the experiences of drummers in recording studios Paul Thompson and Brett Lashua; III. Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit:
• 10. Studying hybrid and electronic drum kit technologies Bryden Stillie;
• 11. The aesthetics of timekeeping: creative and technical aspects of learning drum kit Carlos Xavier Rodriguez and Patrick Hernly;
• 12. Mentorship: jazz drumming across generations Joseph Michael Pignato;
• 13. Leadership: the view from behind the kit Bill Bruford; IV. Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity:
• 14. The meaning of the drumming body Mandy Smith;
• 15. Disability, drumming, and the drum kit Adam Patrick Bell and Cornel Hrisca-Munn;
• 16. Seen but not heard: performing gender and popular feminism on drumming Instagram Vincent Andrisani and Margaret MacAulay;
• 17. Building inclusive drum communities: the case of hey drums Nat Grant;
• 18. A window into my soul: eudaimonia and autotelic drumming Gareth Dylan Smith.