The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

Description

The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to showcase the drum kit, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, as a site worthy of analysis, critique, and reflection. Providing readers with an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the instrument, this book will be a valuable resource for students, drum kit studies scholars, and all those who want a deeper understanding of the drum kit, drummers, and drumming.

Matt Brennan is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Glasgow and the author of Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (Oxford University Press, 2020). His previous book, When Genres Collide (Bloomsbury, 2017), was named as one of Pitchfork's 'Favourite Music Books of 2017.' Joseph Michael Pignato, Professor at the State University of New York, Oneonta, is a 'musician, educator, and music business visionary' (Tape Op Magazine). He is co-author of The Music Learning Profiles Project (Routledge, 2017) and leader of the acclaimed avant jazz collective Bright Dog Red, which records for Ropeadope Records. Daniel Akira Stadnicki has worked as a session drummer for over two decades in the Canadian folk, world, and pop music scenes; garnering Juno nominations (2000), Gold Records (2000), Canadian Folk Music Awards (2013), among other accolades. Daniel also works as a music facilitator for socially vulnerable youth in Toronto and Edmonton.

'A useful gathering of writings in an emerging area of scholarship ... Recommended.' M. D. Jenkins, Choice Magazine