Description A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global History of music from the bottom up Histories 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 provocate.
Description A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global History of music from the bottom up Histories 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
