Overview :While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touc... Read More
Overview :All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and... Read More
Overview :Relatives of mankind, the benevolent Lekthwan come to Earth, sharing knowledge and superior technology. Headstrong Roy Barch feels pangs of ... Read More
Overview :An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazzIn How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music ... Read More
Overview :"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies a... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes,... Read More
Overview :An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional rec... Read More
Overview :From the Preface by Ted Gioia: All of these musicians fought their way back over the next decade, and their success in re-establishing thems... Read More
Overview :Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, ar... Read More