Music: a subversive history [First edition] 9781541644366, 9781541617971, 1969118172, 1541644360

A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom up Histories of music overw

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English Pages x, 514 Seiten Year 2019

Table of 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 invention of the singer --
The shame of music --
Unmanly music --
The devil's songs --
Oppression and musical innovation --
Not all wizards carry wands --
The invention of the audience --
Musicians behaving badly --
The origins of the music business --
Culture wars --
Subversives in wigs --
You say you want a revolution? --
The great flip-flop --
The aesthetics of diaspora --
Black music and the great American lifestyle crisis --
Rebellion goes mainstream --
Funky butt --
The origins of country music in the neolithic era --
Where did our love go? --
The sacrificial ritual --
Rappers and technocrats --
Welcome our new overlords --
Epilogue: This is not a manifesto.

Music: a subversive history [First edition]
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