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 been strictly separated.
Until recently, that is. Over the past few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in healing music. In the midst of this nascent revival, Ted Gioia, a musician, composer, and widely praised author, offers the first detailed exploration of the uses of music for curative purposes from ancient times to the present....
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 the...
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 to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into the uneasy mix of race and money at the point where traditional music became commercial and bluesmen found new audiences of thousands. Combining extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living musicians, and...
In this expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us the rare ...
An Economist Best Book of the Year "A radiantly accomplished writer . . . Gioia conveys his passion for the music with vivid description and shrewd judgements."-Wall Street Journal
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to the art of listening to jazz. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the exotic compositions of Duke Ellington, Gioia covers everything from the music's history to the...
An Economist Best Book of the Year "A radiantly accomplished writer . . . Gioia conveys his passion for the music with vivid description an...
Dějiny možná píšou vítězové. Muziku však mají na svědomí rebelové. Pro většinu lidí jsou dějiny hudby pouze matným pojmem ze školních učebnic, s nímž má jejich vlastní posluchačský zájem jen málo společného. Pestrému dvacátému století předcházejí portréty vážných skladatelů a napudrovaných paruk. Dál do minulosti už je jen doba chorálů, lidových písní, louten a temna. Archeologické nálezy a historické zkoumání však ukazují, že hudba člověka provází od počátku lidstva: písně byly důležitou součástí lovu i duchovního...
Dějiny možná píšou vítězové. Muziku však mají na svědomí rebelové. Pro většinu lidí jsou dějiny hudby pouze matným pojmem ze ško...
