Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190683870)

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era. Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society as a whole--from the bottom up.

Author: Matt Brennan
ISBN-10: 0190683872
ISBN-13: 9780190683870
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d