#nonfiction#music#paperback Original Price : $35.00 .. Blurb: Histories of music largely downplay its disreputable roots, it’s deep connections to sexuality, trance, magic, political unrest, even violence and murder. The stories of the outsiders and rebels who started musical revolutions are overwhelmingly suppressed while mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources are too often cel- ebrated. In Music: A Subversive History, historian Ted Gioia reclaims the history of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs-the real drivers of change and progress. Gioia rediscovers a four-thousand- year history of music as a battleground between powerful interests and clash- ing worldviews. He shows how major breakthroughs have been distorted in sur- viving accounts because they were deemed too shameful or dangerous. He traces the ways outsiders and marginalized groups have repeatedly served as trailblazers of musical expression from ancient times all the way to the jazz, rock, and hip-hop sounds of the present. Music is essential reading for anyone interested in the hidden sources of music's timeless power, from Sappho to the Sex Pistols to Spotify

ISBN: 9781541644366