Lire des livres electroniques Music: A Subversive History
By Ted Gioia
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, 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 of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how
social outcasts have repeatedly become trailblazers of musical expression:
slaves and their descendants, for instance, have repeatedly reinvented
music, 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.
