Monthly Archives: April 2010

This is the first draft of my con­tri­bu­tion to the vol­ume Plu­ral­iz­ing Rhythm that I am cur­rently edit­ing with Bir­gitte Stougaard. All com­ments and sug­ges­tions are wel­come! In this text I analyse James Brown’s con­cept of ‘The One’ (or down­beat) into pop­u­lar music as a rev­o­lu­tion. “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” — the song in which ‘The One’ was intro­duced — is not a rev­o­lu­tion because it made any major alter­ations. On the con­trary, it sim­ply per­formed a minus­cule shift. A change that can­not be seen, touched, smelled, or heard but is real nonetheless.