Contents -- Introduction The Meaning of Musical Time -- Music and Time -- The Meaning of Form -- Music as Symbolism -- The Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 What is 'groove'? -- Four Elements of Groove -- 1 Metronomic Time -- 2 Syncopation -- 3 'Deep metricality' or Multi-levelled Meter -- 4 Back-beat -- Chapter 2 Is Groove African? -- The Making of Popular Music -- Rhythm in African Music -- Historicising Musical Meter -- Chapter 3 Bergsonism and Unmeasurable Time -- Bergson's Metaphysics of Time -- Deleuze and the Multiplicity of Time -- Zuckerkandl's Audible Time -- Chapter 4 Schutz's 'Vivid Present' and the Social Time of Music -- Schutz's Phenomenology -- Music as Phenomenon -- Growing Older Together -- Making Music -- Overcoming the Dichotomy of Inner and Outer -- Chapter 5 Adorno and Reified Time -- The Time of Jazz -- Time in Music -- 'Serious' Music and Time -- Modernism and the Trend towards Stasis -- Music and the Empirical World -- Subjectivity and Collectivity -- Presentness -- Adorno's Contribution -- Chapter 6 Meter, Groove and the Times of Capitalism -- Abstract Labour and Abstract Time -- Exchange and Abstract Time -- Monopoly Capitalism and the Discipline of Abstract Time -- World Time -- Chapter 7 History, Modernism, and the Time of Music -- Time and Narrative -- The Structure of History -- The Historical Consciousness of Modernity -- Groove as a Musical Modernism -- Temporal Quality, Quantity and Measure -- The Politics of an Aesthetic of Measured Time -- References -- Index.