Music : a subversive history / Ted Gioia.

Gioia, Ted, author.

Book

First edition.

New York : Basic Books, 2019.

x, 514 pages ; 25 cm

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Music -- Social aspects -- History.

Music -- Political aspects -- History.

Music -- Social aspects.

Music.

Music -- Political aspects.

History.

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.

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