Nathan Hesselink is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a previous Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Asian Studies. The author/editor of four books and 16 articles on Korean traditional drumming and dance, he has recently published on Radiohead, the Police, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments1. Preamble2. Ambiguity, Rhythm, and Participation in Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song”3. Rhythmic Play, Compositional Intent, and Communication in Rock Music4. The Backbeat as Expressive Device in Rock Music5. Entrainment and the Human-Technology Interface, Historical and Technological Considerations6. Entrainment and the Human-Technology Interface, Sociological and Aesthetic Considerations7. Radiohead, Oxford, and a Rhythmic Holy GrailAppendix: Vancouver and Los Angeles CrewsBibliographyIndex

Finding the Beat is an engaging, comprehensive, and illuminating insight into our innate understanding of entrainment. I must admit that I had real difficulty in finding the beat when I first heard Thom play Pyramid Song. Nathan’s book has helped me realise that maybe I wasn’t winging it quite so much as I thought, as I picked my own route through the rhythmic possibilities of that song.