Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Kick It : A Social History of the Drum Kit, Paperback / softback Book

Kick It : A Social History of the Drum Kit Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts.

Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla.

Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era.

Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society as a whole--from the bottom up.

Information

Save 6%

£28.49

£26.75

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information