The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108489836)

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.

Author: Matt Brennan
ISBN-10: 1108489834
ISBN-13: 9781108489836
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2022