Music : a subversive history /
Gioia, Ted,
Music : a subversive history / Ted Gioia. - First edition. - x, 514 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-487) and index.
The 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 -- The storyteller -- The invention of the singer -- The shame of music -- Unmanly music -- The devil's songs -- Oppression and musical innovation -- Not all wizards carry wands -- The invention of the audience -- Musicians behaving badly -- The origins of the music business -- Culture wars -- Subversives in wigs -- You say you want a revolution? -- The great flip-flop -- The aesthetics of diaspora -- Black music and the great American lifestyle crisis -- Rebellion goes mainstream -- Funky butt -- The origins of country music in the neolithic era -- Where did our love go? -- The 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.
9781541644366 1541644360
2019001627
GBB9F1369 bnb
019531436 Uk
Music--Social aspects--History.
Music--Political aspects--History.
Music : a subversive history / Ted Gioia. - First edition. - x, 514 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-487) and index.
The 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 -- The storyteller -- The invention of the singer -- The shame of music -- Unmanly music -- The devil's songs -- Oppression and musical innovation -- Not all wizards carry wands -- The invention of the audience -- Musicians behaving badly -- The origins of the music business -- Culture wars -- Subversives in wigs -- You say you want a revolution? -- The great flip-flop -- The aesthetics of diaspora -- Black music and the great American lifestyle crisis -- Rebellion goes mainstream -- Funky butt -- The origins of country music in the neolithic era -- Where did our love go? -- The 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.
9781541644366 1541644360
2019001627
GBB9F1369 bnb
019531436 Uk
Music--Social aspects--History.
Music--Political aspects--History.