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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821726503321

Autore

Dean Matt <1980->

Titolo

The drum : a history / / Matt Dean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-43288-9

9786613432889

0-8108-8171-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Classificazione

9,2

Disciplina

786.909

Soggetti

Drum

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is a drum? -- Drum history -- Western Asia -- Africa -- Europe -- North America and Canada -- South and Central America -- Southern and Eastern Asia -- South East Asia -- Oceania -- The European Orchestra -- Modern drumkit -- Rudiments -- Women drummers -- Drum heads -- Drum sticks -- Education -- Electronic drums -- Recording drums.

Sommario/riassunto

The Drum: A History highlights the different uses and customs associated with drumming and examines how the drum developed across many cultures and over thousands of years before they became the instruments we know today. Bringing its history to the present, Dean considers the modern cultural and commercial face of the drum, detailing its role in military settings, the development of the ""modern drum kit,"" and looking at the continuing evolution of the drum and its role. Finally, drum fans will have at their fingertips the biographi