Off beat : : pluralizing rhythm / / editors, Jan Hein Hoogstad and Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen.

• Superior document: Thamyris/Intersecting : place, sex, and race, no. 26 (2013)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hoogstad, Jan Hein.; Stougaard Pedersen, Birgitte.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Thamyris intersecting ; no. 26 (2013)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm.

Table of Contents

℗©...Y tu, que has hecho de mis ritmos? : the Buena Vista Social Club and the repeating island / Timothy Yaczo -- Turning the machine into a slovenly machine : Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and I Feel Love / Tilman Baumgärtel -- Aesthetic potentials of rhythm in hip hop music and culture : rhythmic conventions, skills, and everyday life / Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen -- Overcome the pain : rhythmic transgression in heavy metal music / Dietmar Elflein -- Kairos, the rhythm of timing / Marie Gelang -- Rhythm and balance in sculpture and poetry / Lena Hopsch and Eva Lilja -- Subversive rhythms : postcolonial prosody and Indo-Anglian poetry / Peter Groves -- AlgoRHYTHMs everywhere : a heuristic approach to everyday technologies / Shintaro Miyazaki -- Invisibility's beat : Ralph Ellison, rhythm, and cinema's blind field / Jodi Brooks -- The good foot : James Brown's revolutionary rhythmic interventions / Jan Hein Hoogstad.