Music: A Subversive History

by Ted Gioia

Book Overview

"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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541644379
• ISBN13: 9781541644373
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"