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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
32.95 AUD
Category: Music
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insight, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed "The History of Jazz" - brings to life the stirrin ...Show more
History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
30.95 AUD
Category: Music
Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the stor ...Show more
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Covering everything from the music's structure and history to the basic building blocks of improvisation, Gioia shows exactly what to listen for in a jazz performan ...Show more
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
42.99 AUD
Category: Music
Jazz is the great American art form, its very essence is predicated on freedom and creativity. Its sound unequivocally calls forth narratives of past struggles and future dreams. Yet jazz can be as inscrutable as it is mesmerizing, especially to outsiders who don't know what to make of improvisation or ...Show more
Music - A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
26.99 AUD
Category: Music
"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 ...Show more
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