
A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. "A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation." ―Los Angeles Times Histories of music overwhelmingly...


A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. "A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation." ―Los Angeles Times Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories...

A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom upHistories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations,...