Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Histories of the Drum Kit
- Part II Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance
- 5 The Drum Kit beyond the Anglosphere
- 6 Drum Kit Performance in Contemporary Classical Music
- 7 Theorizing Complex Meters and Irregular Grooves
- 8 Shake, Rattle, and Rolls
- 9 Drum Tracks
- Part III Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit
- Part IV Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity
- Index
9 - Drum Tracks
Locating the Experiences of Drummers in Recording Studios
from Part II - Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Histories of the Drum Kit
- Part II Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance
- 5 The Drum Kit beyond the Anglosphere
- 6 Drum Kit Performance in Contemporary Classical Music
- 7 Theorizing Complex Meters and Irregular Grooves
- 8 Shake, Rattle, and Rolls
- 9 Drum Tracks
- Part III Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit
- Part IV Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores drummers’ experiences inside recording studios from social, spatial, and technological viewpoints to highlight the drummer’s place in the creative processes of making popular music recordings. Through our ongoing ethnographic research in studios, this chapter draws from observational fieldnotes when both authors were acting as ethnographers and drummers (‘drummer-as-ethnographer’) and a series of semi-structured interviews with eight drummers of varied backgrounds and experiences. Our analyses critique widely-accepted beliefs about drummers (or in Bourdieu’s terms “Doxa”) by spotlighting three key areas: (1) the social spaces of drummers in studios (i.e. where drummers ‘belong’, or not); (2) the production of social identities in studios (i.e. who drummers are in relation to power hierarchies within the recording process); and (3) the knowledge and involvement of drummers within the creative process of record-making (i.e. what drummers ‘know’ and are able to do with their knowledge in studios). We conclude the chapter by highlighting that although they are often overlooked, drummers are vital actors within the social, spatial, and technological worlds of the recording studio.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit , pp. 126 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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