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Music : a subversive history

by Ted Gioia

This global history examines four thousand years of music as a catalyst for social power and upheaval. It focuses on the role of social outcasts and rebels in driving musical innovation and cultural change from antiquity to the modern era.

Accession 15779 ISBN 9781541644366 Publisher Basic Books
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