Introduction Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki and Matt Brennan; I. Histories of the Drum Kit: 1. The drum kit in theory Matt Brennan; 2. Historically informed jazz performance on the drum kit Paul Archibald; 3. Toward a cultural history of the backbeat Steven Baur; 4. Historicizing a scene and sound: the case of Colombia's Música Tropical Sabanera Pedro Ojeda and Juan David Rubio Restrepo; II. Analysing the Drum Kit in Performance: 5. The drum kit beyond the anglosphere: the case of Brazil Daniel Gohn; 6. Drum kit performance in contemporary classical music Ben Reimer; 7. Theorizing complex meters and irregular grooves Scott Hanenberg; 8. Shake, rattle, and rolls: drumming and the aesthetics of Americana Daniel Akira Stadnicki; 9. Drum tracks: locating the experiences of drummers in recording studios Paul Thompson and Brett Lashua; III. Learning, Teaching, and Leading on the Drum Kit: 10. Studying hybrid and electronic drum kit technologies Bryden Stillie; 11. The aesthetics of timekeeping: creative and technical aspects of learning drum kit Carlos Xavier Rodriguez and Patrick Hernly; 12. Mentorship: jazz drumming across generations Joseph Michael Pignato; 13. Leadership: the view from behind the kit Bill Bruford; IV. Drumming Bodies, Meaning, and Identity: 14. The meaning of the drumming body Mandy Smith; 15. Disability, drumming, and the drum kit Adam Patrick Bell and Cornel Hrisca-Munn; 16. Seen but not heard: performing gender and popular feminism on drumming Instagram Vincent Andrisani and Margaret MacAulay; 17. Building inclusive drum communities: the case of hey drums Nat Grant; 18. A window into my soul: eudaimonia and autotelic drumming Gareth Dylan Smith.