Music
A Subversive History
by Ted Gioia · first published 2019
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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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I've read a few of Ted Gioia's books about jazz and 20th C music, and they're uniformly excellent - very well-researched and very well written. I think The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire was my favourite - fascinating investigations into the stories behind…
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