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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
1 The Origin of Music as a Force of Creative Destruction
2 Carnivores at the Philharmonic
3 In Search of a Universal Music
4 Music History as a Battle Between Magic and Mathematics
5 Bulls and Sex Toys
6 The Storyteller
7 The Invention of the Singer
8 The Shame of Music
9 Unmanly Music
10 The Devil’s Songs
11 Oppression and Musical Innovation
12 Not All Wizards Carry Wands
13 The Invention of the Audience
14 Musicians Behaving Badly
15 The Origins of the Music Business
16 Culture Wars
17 Subversives in Wigs
18 You Say You Want a Revolution?
19 The Great Flip-Flop
20 The Aesthetics of Diaspora
21 Black Music and the Great American Lifestyle Crisis
22 Rebellion Goes Mainstream
23 Funky Butt
24 The Origins of Country Music in the Neolithic Era
25 Where Did Our Love Go?
26 The Sacrificial Ritual
27 Rappers and Technocrats
28 Welcome Our New Overlords
Epilogue: This Is Not a Manifesto
Acknowledgments
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About the Author
Also by Ted Gioia
Advance praise for "music"
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