IDEAS:
* John miller Chernoff.
* Relationship between African rhythm and general response to things ( sensibility).
* Our nation of music is an abstract system that organizes music.
-Musicians keep count (on beat).
-Time is unvarying external framework (pattern) this is how we think of time activities fit into framework of time that is passing.
* Polymeter : many time signatures.
-“Apart playing “.
-You make sense of rhythm in context.
-No one can play on the beat -> they need to conflict (aesthetic), inherent tension.
* Silent beat: no emphasis on beat (western) because there is none; God’s drum is playing it .
* You can be a creative individual and cooperate at the same time; more ideas make collective group better.
-Conversation between drummer and dancer makes more complex; the more complex, the harder to keep track of the better; longing and suspense
* Sounds interactive, like you have to do something about it or with it like move or watch a group move to it; sound same , not as varied or much to analyze.
* African act out faith in dance.
* Framework of time is invariable like the rhythm and the signature.
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