Meter as Rhythm

Drawing on insights from the modern process philosophy of Bergson William James and A. N. Whitehead Christopher Hasty's <em>Meter as Rhythm</em> releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete visceral agent of musical expression. Hasty reinterprets oppositions of law and freedom structure and process determinacy and indeterminacy to form a theory that engages diverse repertories and aesthetic issues. The revised 20th anniversary edition facilitates the work's current contexts of application from new subfields in ethnomusicology and music cognition to non-music fields like literary studies physics and biology.<br>