The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

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.