Drums - Hand Drums

Drumming, Beating, Striking

John Mowitt

For Mowitt, percussion is both a bodily experience-making sense of life by touching and playing with the limit of embodiment, the skin, and a vitalizing agent for critical theory itself. He examines drumming and beating as musical practice (musicological meaning), as the channeling of violence or shock (sociological meaning), and as a subjective, embodied agent (psychoanalytic meaning). In the process he focuses on such topics as the separation of slaves from their drums, the migration of blacks to urban centers in the North, E. P. Thompson's work on "rough music", Althusserian interpellation and Lacanian repudiation, and psychoanalytic discourse on the "skin ego".

This book makes an important contribution to cultural studies, popular and critical musicology, the theorization of the body, and the sociology of music. A must-have book for percussionists.

280 pgs, paperback
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$79.95