Music a subversive history /
Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how social outcasts have repeatedly become trailblazers of musical expression.
| Main Author: | Gioia, Ted, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Basic Books,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
x, 514 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how social outcasts have repeatedly become trailblazers of musical expression. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-487) and index. Introduction -- Origin of music as a force of creative destruction -- Carnivores at the Philharmonic -- In search of a universal music -- Music history as a battle between magic and mathematics -- Bulls and sex toys -- Storyteller -- Invention of the singer -- Shame of music -- Unmanly music -- Devil's songs -- Oppression and musical innovation -- Not all wizards carry wands -- Invention of the audience -- Musicians behaving badly - - Origins of the music business -- Culture wars -- Subversives in wigs -- You say you want a revolution? - - Great flip-flop -- Aesthetics of diaspora -- Black music and the great American lifestyle crisis -- Rebellion goes mainstream -- Funky butt -- Origins of country music in the neolithic era -- Where did our love go? -- Sacrificial ritual -- Rappers and technocrats -- Welcome our new overlords -- Epilogue: This is not a manifesto. Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how social outcasts have repeatedly become trailblazers of musical expression. |
| Physical Description: |
x, 514 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-487) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781541644366 1541644360 |