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Music

By Ted Gioia

Music Arts & Music

Music

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"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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
528
Release Date:
2021-04-20
Publication Date:
2021-05-27
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1541644379
ISBN13:
9781541644373
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
470 g
Height:
209 cm
Width:
138 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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