The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead
composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing
without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to
the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional histories
of music, Gioia contents, downplay those elements of music that are
considered disreputable or irrational-its deep connections to
sexuality, magic, trance and alternative mind states, healing,
social control, generational conflict, political unrest, even
violence and murder. They suppress the 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. Here, Gioia attempts to
reclaim music history for the riffraff, the insurgents, and
provocateurs-the real drivers of change and innovation. In Music,
Gioia tells the four-thousand-year history of music as a source of
power, change, upheaval, and enchantment. He shows how social
outcasts have repeatedly become the great trailblazers of musical
expression: slaves and their descendants, for instance, have
repeatedly reinvented music in America and elsewhere, from ragtime,
blues, jazz, R&B, to bossa nova, soul, and hip hop. A
revolutionary and revisionist account, Music: A Subversive History
is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of music.
General
Imprint: |
BasicBooks
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2021 |
Authors: |
Ted Gioia
|
Dimensions: |
208 x 138 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
528 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5416-4437-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5416-4437-9 |
Barcode: |
9781541644373 |
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