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Music : a subversive history

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Summary

Gioia tells a 4,000-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.

Contents
Introduction -- The origin of music as a force of creative destruction -- Carnivores at the Philharmonic -- In search of a universal music -- Music history as a battle between magic and mathematics -- Bulls and sex toys -- The storyteller -- The i... Read more
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Description
x, 514 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher
Basic Books 2019

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 780.9 GIO in Adult Non-fiction Available

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