Music - A Subversive History

Originally published in hardcover by Basic Books in 2019.

About the author

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.

Summary

"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions

Foreword

"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions

Product details

• Authors: Ted Gioia
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781541644373
• ISBN: 978-1-5416-4437-3
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Jazz, Music, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century