The Philosophy of Rhythm by Peter Cheyne

Author:Peter Cheyne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

More driving repetition in African musical rhythms may explain the contrast with European rhythmic experience from an A-series view. Chernoff and Danielsen argue that repetition in a highly pulsating and rhythmically layered groove engenders participation, entrainment, embodiment, and pleasure. Western art music of the past few centuries can groove, but is mostly more interested in change than repetition. That people don’t dance to it much may be due more to cultural proscription. European rhythms still offer a highly embodied experience that suffuses listeners with pleasure. For Danielsen and Chernoff to grant blackness an exclusive purchase on these qualities, may just be to other it, reiterating the historical Afro–Euro–American entanglement between whiteness and blackness. But could we not broaden the perspective? Don’t cultural actors in Asia and beyond have such experiences? We need A-series reports of many other kinds of rhythmic experience before we can talk about how many kinds there are.

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