Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music
@article{Neill2002PleasureBR, title={Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music}, author={Ben Neill}, journal={Leonardo Music Journal}, year={2002}, pages={3-6} }
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… CONTINUE READING
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