MUSIC. A SUBVERSIVE HISTORY

A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom upHistories of music overwhelmingly suppr ess stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrow ed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, historian 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 o f power, ...[Read more]