Music: A Subversive History
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541644373ISBN-10:1541644379UPC:9781541644373Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Social History, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCRG9210QV
"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a four-thousand-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how outcasts, immigrants, slaves, and others at the margins of society have repeatedly served as trailblazers of musical expression, reinventing our most cherished songs from ancient times all the way to the jazz, reggae, and hip-hop sounds of the current day. Music: A Subversive History is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of music, from Sappho to the Sex Pistols to Spotify.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541644373ISBN-10:1541644379UPC:9781541644373Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Social History, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCRG9210QV
Ted Gioia is a music historian and the author of eleven books, including How to Listen to Jazz. His three previous books on the social history of music--Work Songs, Healing Songs, and Love Songs--have each been honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Gioia's wide-ranging activities as a critic, scholar, performer, and educator have established him as a leading global guide to music past, present, and future.
Publisher: Basic Books
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