Rhythm and Critique presents twelve new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis, and includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it occurs through critical theory literatures of the twentieth century, enabling the reader to situate philosophical and contemporary readings that further define rhythm as a critical term and mode of analysis.In placing emphasis upon rhythm as cultural technique and locating its significance for the analysis of the everyday, the book offers a clear and engaging overview of a fascinating theoretical field. It helps map a range of histories and approaches and considers how rhythm might now emerge more forcefully and pertinently as a critical framing for contemporary culture.

About the Author
Paola Crespi, Visiting Research Fellow at the Topology Research Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London. Sunil Manghani, Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474447553
Author Paola Crespi
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press