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Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music

Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music The division between high-art electronic music and pop electronic music is best defined in terms of rhythmic content. Pop electronic music uses repetitive beats, primarily in 4/4 time, but a new generation of composers is working within that structure to create what is essentially the new art music. This phenomenon is an outgrowth of such historical currents as minimalism and postmodernism, along with the continuing development of a global technoculture; it is part of a larger cultural shift in which art is becoming more connected with society rather than being created by and for specialists. This positive development is being accelerated by the rapid evolution of new technologies for producing and reproducing music today, as well as by new possibilities for distribution and dissemination of music electronically. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Leonardo Music Journal MIT Press

Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music

Leonardo Music Journal , Volume December 2002 (12) – Dec 1, 2002

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2002 ISAST
ISSN
0961-1215
eISSN
1531-4812
DOI
10.1162/096112102762295052
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Abstract

The division between high-art electronic music and pop electronic music is best defined in terms of rhythmic content. Pop electronic music uses repetitive beats, primarily in 4/4 time, but a new generation of composers is working within that structure to create what is essentially the new art music. This phenomenon is an outgrowth of such historical currents as minimalism and postmodernism, along with the continuing development of a global technoculture; it is part of a larger cultural shift in which art is becoming more connected with society rather than being created by and for specialists. This positive development is being accelerated by the rapid evolution of new technologies for producing and reproducing music today, as well as by new possibilities for distribution and dissemination of music electronically.

Journal

Leonardo Music JournalMIT Press

Published: Dec 1, 2002

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