Rainer Polak

Utvalgte publikasjoner

* felles f?rsteforfatterskap

Jakubowski, Kelly*; Polak, Rainer*; Rocamora, Mart¨ªn; Jure, Luis & Jacoby, Nori (2022). Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony. Cognition, 227, 105205.

Polak, R. (2022). Non-isochronous metre in music from Mali. In M. Doffman, E. Payne, & T. Young (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music (pp. 252¨C274). Oxford University Press. 

Jacoby*, N., R. Polak*, and J. London* (2021). Extreme precision in rhythmic interaction is enabled by role-optimized sensorimotor coupling: Analysis and modelling of West African drum ensemble music. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,376(1835).

Polak*, R., N. Jacoby*, T. Fischinger, D. Goldberg, A. Holzapfel, and J. London (2018). Rhythmic prototypes across cultures: A comparative study of tapping synchronization. Music Perception, 36(1), 1¨C23.

Polak, R. (2017). The lower limit for meter in dance drumming from West Africa. Empirical Musicology Review, 12(3-4), 205¨C226.

London*, J., R. Polak*, and N. Jacoby* (2017). Rhythm histograms and musical meter: A corpus study of Malian percussion music. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(2), 474¨C480.

Polak*, R., J. London*, and N. Jacoby* (2016) Both isochronous and non-isochronous metrical subdivision afford precise and stable ensemble entrainment: A corpus study of Malian jembe drumming. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 285. 

Polak, R., and J. London (2014) Timing and meter in Mande drumming from Mali. Music Theory Online 20(1). 

Polak, R. (2010) Rhythmic feel as meter: Non-isochronous beat subdivision in jembe music from Mali. Music Theory Online 16(4).

Polak, R. (2007). Performing audience: On the social constitution of focused interaction at celebrations in Mali. Anthropos 102(1), 3¨C18.

Polak, R. (2004) Festmusik als Arbeit, Trommeln als Beruf. Jenbe-Spieler in einer westafrikanischen Gro?stadt. Berlin: Reimer Verlag.

Polak, R. (2000). A musical instrument travels around the world: Jenbe playing in Bamako, West Africa, and beyond. The World of Music, 42(3), 7¨C46.  Reprint (2006) in J. Post (ed.), Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader (pp. 161¨C185), NY: Routledge Press.