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  • Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

    In this "expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history" (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us "the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century plantations...
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  • Gold and Iron by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Gold and Iron

    Relatives of mankind, the benevolent Lekthwan come to Earth, sharing knowledge and superior technology. Headstrong Roy Barch feels pangs of inferiority-particularly in the intellectual company of golden-skinned Komeitk Lelianr.The brutish Klau follow the Lekthwan to Earth. Taken slave, Roy and Lelianr are transported to...
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  • Healing Songs by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Healing Songs

    While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two millennia, the roles of the healer and the musician have...
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  • How to Listen to Jazz by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    How to Listen to Jazz

    A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal) In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us...
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  • Love Songs: The Hidden History by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Love Songs: The Hidden History

    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how...
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  • Love Songs: The Hidden History by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Love Songs: The Hidden History

    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how...
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  • Music: A Subversive History by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Music: A Subversive History

    "A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who...
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  • The Birth (and Death) of the Cool by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The Birth (and Death) of the Cool

    It's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a world where people no longer aspire to coolness. In this intriguing cultural history, nationally acclaimed author...
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  • The History of Jazz by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The History of Jazz

    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the...
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  • The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture

    Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century. He argues that because...
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  • The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

    The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and...
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  • The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia...
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  • West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960 by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960

    From the Preface by Ted Gioia: All of these musicians fought their way back over the next decade, and their success in re-establishing themselves as important artists was perhaps the first signal, initially unrecognized as such, that a re-evaluation of the earlier West Coast...
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  • Work Songs by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Work Songs

    All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the spinner's wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail...
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