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ISBN 10: 1541617975

ISBN 13: 9781541617971

Author: Ted Gioia

“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.

Table of contents:

1 The Origin of Music as a Force of Creative Destruction

2 Carnivores at the Philharmonic

3 In Search of a Universal Music

4 Music History as a Battle Between Magic and Mathematics

5 Bulls and Sex Toys

6 The Storyteller

7 The Invention of the Singer

8 The Shame of Music

9 Unmanly Music

10 The Devil’s Songs

11 Oppression and Musical Innovation

12 Not All Wizards Carry Wands

13 The Invention of the Audience

14 Musicians Behaving Badly

15 The Origins of the Music Business

16 Culture Wars

17 Subversives in Wigs

18 You Say You Want a Revolution?

19 The Great Flip-Flop

20 The Aesthetics of Diaspora

21 Black Music and the Great American Lifestyle Crisis

22 Rebellion Goes Mainstream

23 Funky Butt

24 The Origins of Country Music in the Neolithic Era

25 Where Did Our Love Go?

26 The Sacrificial Ritual

27 Rappers and Technocrats

28 Welcome Our New Overlords

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