Musical rhythm, consisting of apparently abstract intervals of accented temporal events, has
a remarkable capacity to move our minds and bodies. How does the cognitive system …

Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

Moving to music is an essential human pleasure particularly related to musical groove.
Structurally, music associated with groove is often characterised by rhythmic complexity in …

Funk, this book exclaims, is a multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in
conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film …

Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches?
Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the …

The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

Recorded music is as different to live music as film is to theatre. In this book, Simon Zagorski-
Thomas employs current theories from psychology and sociology to examine how recorded …

Rhythmic incongruity in the form of syncopation is a prominent feature of many
contemporary musical styles. Syncopations afford incongruity between rhythmic patterns …

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's
groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a …

Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory
The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as …