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   Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 02:48:21 JST Rasmus Fleischer

   Mark Abel, "Groove: an aesthetic of measured time".
   This book is such a banger! I might not agree on exactly every point but it's so filled with insights on musical groove, as well as on Adorno's aesthetics (re-read through Postone's reading of Marx).

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     Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 01:45:04 JST Rasmus Fleischer

     To the question "is groove African?", Abel's clear answer is no. He strongly wants the historical materialist approach, analyzing groove within the same historical and metropolitancontext (and dialectically opposed to) modernist Western art music. He therefore sees it as necessary to discard any "geographical" understanding of groove as coming from the colonized periphery of capitalism i.e. from West Africa. But I'm not sure these two perspectives need to be seen as mutually exclusive by a dialectical thinker.