![Slave to the rhythm? The many different definitions of rhythm](http://fp.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ADziadek_SlaveToTheRhythm_ForumOFPoetic_25_2021-01-250x354.jpg)
Adam Dziadek
ORCID: 0000-0003-4584-5704
A b s t r a k t
This essay discusses different definitions of rhythm. The author thoroughly reviews the different definitions and approaches to rhythm in Polish and foreign-language (especially French and English) theoretical texts. He also refers to the texts of culture, including Grace Jones’s famous song Slave to the rhythm or Edward Pasewicz’s poem Sonata o rytmie [Sonata about rhythm].