Böcker av Nathan Hesselink

"Introduces entrainment-the capacity to perceive a beat and synchronize to it-through the lens of contemporary rock music to explain why humans enjoy listening to music together and what is it about certain beats that captures our attention"--

Introduces Korean drumming and dance to the English-speaking world. This title offers detailed descriptions of its instrumentation, dance formations, costuming, actors, teaching lineages, and the complexities of training. It is suitable for those interested in ethnomusicology, world music, anthropology, sociology, and Asian studies.

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. This title traces this reinvention through the rise of the Korean supergroup.