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2023

Gioia Ted Title : Musica. Una storia sovversiva
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: ShaKe

Non c'è storia ufficiale della musica che non cancelli regolarmente dalle proprie cronache ogni traccia di outsider e ribelli: i reali protagonisti che danno vita alle rivoluzioni musicali. In questo libro, Ted Gioia fa una straordinaria operazione di rovesciamento intellettuale, rivendicando il peso giocato in ogni importante innovazione musicale da tutti coloro che sono ai margini della società. Qui si racconta così una storia della musica lunga quattromila anni, una vicenda che ha profondi legami con la sessualità, la magia, la trance, lo sciamanesimo, la guarigione, il controllo sociale, i conflitti generazionali, i disordini politici, persino la violenza e l'omicidio. Dai primi strumenti recuperati dai corni degli animali o dall'arco dei cacciatori fino alle neuroscienze, l'autore mette in evidenza aspetti poco noti della storia musicale. Per esempio che, a lungo, le percussioni sono state una prerogativa solo femminile, finché il loro uso in campo militare non divenne prevalente. Ted Gioia ci racconta anche come avveniva la trasmissione dei canti tra gli antichi aedi greci, e quanto i trovatori francesi medievali nella loro ispirazione e nello stile delle loro canzoni siano stati debitori dei girovaghi ispano-arabi. Per non parlare di quanto la storia d'amore celtica di Tristano e Isotta riecheggiasse l'epopea d'amore persiana di Vis e Ramin, e poi Mozart e Beethoven, sempre così consapevolmente sovversivi. E ancora gli schiavi e i loro discendenti che hanno continuamente reinventato la musica, dal ragtime al blues, dal jazz al R&B, e infine al soul e all'hip hop. Mus
€ 23,00     Scontato: € 21,85
2021

Gioia Ted Title : Storia del jazz. Nuova ediz.
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: EDT

La più famosa storia del jazz mai scritta, in una nuova edizione profondamente riveduta e aggiornata alle ultime tendenze. Nuova luce sulle donne del jazz, sui musicisti e sugli stili emergenti. Ted Gioia è uno dei massimi studiosi e divulgatori di jazz del mondo. La sua Storia del jazz, pubblicata da EDT nel 2013, è stata subito salutata come il miglior libro in circolazione dall'intero mondo degli appassionati. A quasi dieci anni di distanza, EDT presenta al pubblico italiano una nuova edizione del libro, completamente riveduta e aggiornata ai musicisti emergenti e alle ultime tendenze. Accanto alle figure dei grandi musicisti e degli stili che si sono avvicendati nella storia di questo genere ormai secolare, da Jelly Roll Morton a Louis Armstrong, da Duke Ellington al Cotton Club, ai giganti del cool come Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, e Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie fino ai sound contemporanei di Wynton Marsalis, e dei postmodernisti, si troveranno nomi che più di recente si sono messi in luce, da Kamasi Washington a Esperanza Spalding, da Robert Glasper a Shabaka Hutchings. In questa nuova edizione, una particolare attenzione è stata dedicata alle grandi musiciste della storia, mentre la stessa cura di sempre è riservata al contesto sociale in cui i diversi stili nascono e si sviluppano, agli incroci e alle ibridazioni. Una storia che appartiene al cuore della nostra cultura musicale, raccontata una volta di più con autorevolezza e freschezza di stile.
€ 35,00     Scontato: € 33,25
2020

Gioia Ted Title : Delta blues. I grandi musicisti del Mississippi che hanno rivoluzionato la musica
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: EDT

La storia del blues affonda le sue radici in un contesto di povertà estrema e di lotta per la sopravvivenza. I suoi primi eroi sono figure di cui si sa poco o nulla, esibizioni misteriose e sorprendenti di artisti provenienti dalle zone poverissime del Delta del Mississippi testimoniate già alla fine dell'Ottocento e poi registrate a partire dagli anni Venti del Novecento; ma è anche la storia di un genere musicale dal successo inarrestabile e globale. Quello del musicista e musicologo Ted Gioia è un ritratto ampio e affascinante, che racconta non solo la vita e le opere di leggendari personaggi rurali come Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James e Robert Johnson, ma anche la fortuna dei musicisti originari del Delta che hanno lanciato il blues elettrico sulle scene mondiali, come Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker e B.B. King, fino a descrivere il blues revival degli anni Sessanta e la scena contemporanea del Delta fino agli anni Duemila. Nello stile appassionato e narrativo che lo contraddistingue, Gioia percorre gli ambienti geografici e sociali, indaga le parabole personali dei musicisti, dei produttori e persino dei ricercatori e musicologi, si addentra empaticamente nel racconto delle linee di sviluppo e nei contenuti letterari e sociali del blues. Riesce insomma lì dove molto spesso falliscono gli storici della musica, e cioè nel trasmettere un'idea della musica come parte di una vicenda tanto sociologica quanto personale, fatta di povertà e riscatto, di genialità e fallimenti, di meravigliosi momenti di espansione artistica e di tempi di decadenza. Arricchisc
€ 26,00     Scontato: € 24,70
1918

Gioia Ted Title : Love Songs
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Oxford University Press


€ 25,20
1917

Gioia Ted Title : How to Listen to Jazz
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Basic Books


€ 16,70
1916

Gioia Ted Title : How to Listen to Jazz
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Basic Books

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 unexpected shifts in melody or tempo. How does a casual listener learn to understand and appreciate the nuances between the unapologetic and innovative sounds of Louis Armstrong, the complexity of Coleman Hawkin's saxophone, and the exotic and alluring compositions of Duke Ellington? How does Thelonius Monk fit in alongside Benny Goodman and John Coltrane? 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 performance. He shares listening strategies that will help readers understand and appreciate jazz for the rest of their lives, and provides a history of the major movements in jazz right up to the present day. He concludes with a guide to 150 elite musicians who are setting the tone for 21st century jazz. Both an appreciation and an introduction to jazz by a foremost expert, How to Listen to Jazz is a must-read for anyone who's ever wanted to understand America's greatest contribution to the world of music.
€ 22,30

Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby (EDT), Gioia Ted (FRW) Title : Conversations in Jazz
Author: Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby (EDT), Gioia Ted (FRW)
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr


€ 29,70
1915

Gioia Ted Title : Love Songs
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how have our changing perceptions about topics such as sexuality and gender roles changed our attitudes towards these songs?

In Love Songs: The Hidden History, Ted Gioia uncovers the unexplored story of the love song for the first time. Drawing on two decades of research, Gioia presents the full range of love songs, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day. The book traces the battles over each new insurgency in the music of love--whether spurred by wandering scholars of medieval days or by four lads from Liverpool in more recent times. In these pages, Gioia reveals that the tenderest music has, in different eras, driven many of the most heated cultural conflicts, and how the humble love song has played a key role in expanding the sphere of individualism and personal autonomy in societies around the world.

Gioia forefronts the conflicts, controversies, and the battles over censorship and suppression spurred by such music, revealing the outsiders and marginalized groups that have played a decisive role in shaping our songs of romance and courtship, and the ways their innovations have led to reprisals and strife. And he describes the surprising paths by which the love song has triumphed over these obstacles, and emerged as the dominant form of musical expression in modern society.
€ 26,80
2015

Gioia Ted Title : Gli standard del jazz. Una guida al repertorio
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: EDT

Una guida completa alle grandi canzoni e composizioni che costituiscono la struttura portante della musica jazz e la lingua comune degli interpreti di questo genere di tutti i paesi e di tutte le epoche. Da "Ain't Misbehavin'" e "Autumn in New York" a "Fly Me to the Moon", "Sophisticated Lady" e "I Can't Give You Anything but Love": la storia, le caratteristiche, le versioni più celebri di oltre 250 successi che spaziano dai grandi classici di Broadway alle più famose melodie di jazzisti del calibro di Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington e John Coltrane. Per ciascuno standard, Gioia fornisce al lettore una quantità di notizie storiche interessanti, aneddoti coloriti, dettagli tecnici e indicazioni di ascolto. Più di 2.000 incisioni consigliate, in un volume adatto tanto alla lettura quanto alla consultazione.
€ 30,00     Scontato: € 28,50
2013

Gioia Ted; Martinelli F. (cur.) Title : Storia del jazz
Author: Gioia Ted; Martinelli F. (cur.)
Publisher: EDT

Alla pubblicazione della prima edizione, nel 1997, "La Storia del jazz" di Ted Gioia fu accolta dai critici e dagli intenditori di tutto il mondo come il racconto definitivo della grande epopea di questo genere musicale. L'opera che finalmente si presenta oggi al lettore italiano è un'edizione completamente riveduta e aggiornata dall'autore alla luce delle più recenti ricerche e tendenze. Gioia racconta le vicende del jazz come non era mai stato fatto prima, in un libro che tratteggia con grande freschezza narrativa le personalità dei leggendari maestri del passato e dei grandi musicisti del presente, gli stili e le correnti che hanno portato alla ribalta e gli ambienti da cui hanno tratto origine e forza creativa. Vi si troveranno giganti come Jelly Roll Morton e Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington al Cotton Club, il suono tagliente di Charlie Parker, i fuoriclasse del cool jazz come Lester Young, Stan Getz e Gerry Mulligan, l'Età dello Swing e il jazz moderno di Dizzy Gillespie negli anni Quaranta, Miles Davis e il suo concerto del 1955 al Newport Jazz Festival, gli esperimenti di Omette Coleman con l'atonalità, i grandi orizzonti offerti alla fusion da Pat Metheny, le ampie composizioni di Wynton Marsalis e i postmodernisti della scena downtown: i ritratti vivaci di questi e molti altri grandi musicisti sono intrecciati con le raffinate descrizioni delle loro creazioni e tecniche.
€ 35,00
1912

Gioia Ted Title : The Jazz Standards
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and includes a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings.

Many books recommend jazz CDs or discuss musicians and styles, but this is the first to tell the story of the songs themselves. The fan who wants to know more about a jazz song heard at the club or on the radio will find this book indispensable. Musicians who play these songs night after night now have a handy guide, outlining their history and significance and telling how they have been performed by different generations of jazz artists. Students learning about jazz standards now have a complete reference work for all of these cornerstones of the repertoire.

Author Ted Gioia, whose body of work includes the award-winning The History of Jazz and Delta Blues, is the perfect guide to lead readers through the classics of the genre. As a jazz pianist and recording artist, he has performed these songs for decades. As a music historian and critic, he has gained a reputation as a leading expert on jazz. Here he draws on his deep experience with this music in creating the ultimate work on the subject.

An introduction for new fans, a useful handbook for jazz enthusiasts and performers, and an important reference for students and educators, The Jazz Standards belongs on the shelf of every serious jazz lover or musician.
€ 36,50
1911

Gioia Ted Title : The History of Jazz
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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 story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's advocacy of modern jazz in the 1940s, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the current day. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. He also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born.
€ 15,50
2009

Gioia Ted, Harpe Neil (CON) Title : Delta Blues
Author: Gioia Ted, Harpe Neil (CON)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

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 first-person accounts with "his own calm, argument-closing incantations to draw a line through a century of Delta blues" (New York Times), this engrossing narrative is flavored with insightful and vivid musical descriptions that ensure "an understanding of not only the musicians, but the music itself" (Boston Sunday Globe). Rooted in the thick-as-tar Delta soil, Delta Blues is already "a contemporary classic in its field" (Jazz Review).
€ 17,90
2006

Gioia Ted Title : Healing Songs
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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. Gioia's inquiry into the restorative powers of sound moves effortlessly from the history of shamanism to the role of Orpheus as a mythical figure linking Eastern and Western ideas about therapeutic music, and from Native American healing ceremonies to what clinical studies can reveal about the efficacy of contemporary methods of sonic healing.

Gioia considers a broad range of therapies, providing a thoughtful, impartial guide to their histories and claims, their successes and failures. He examines a host of New Age practices, including toning, Cymatics, drumming circles, and the Tomatis method. And he explores how the medical establishment has begun to recognize and incorporate the therapeutic power of song. Acknowledging that the drumming circle will not—and should not—replace the emergency room, nor the shaman the cardiologist, Gioia suggests that the most promising path is one in which both the latest medical science and music—with its capacity to transform attitudes and bring people together—are brought to bear on the multifaceted healing process.

In Healing Songs, as in its companion volume Work Songs, Gioia moves beyond studies of music centered on specific performers, time periods, or genres to illuminate how music enters into and transforms the experiences of everyday life.


€ 34,30
1998

Gioia Ted Title : West Coast Jazz
Author: Gioia Ted
Publisher: Univ of California Pr



€ 34,00
1991

Ted Gioia Title : Imperfect Art
Author: Ted Gioia
Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND

Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century. He argues that because improvisation--the essence of jazz--must often fail under the pressure of on-the-spot creativity, we should view jazz as an "imperfect art" and base our judgments of it on an "aesthetics of imperfection."
Incorporating the thought of such seminal thinkers as Walter Benjamin, Jos� Ortega y Gasset, and Roland Barthes, The Imperfect Art offers vivid portraits of the giants of jazz and startling insights into this vital musical form and the interaction of society and art.
€ 8,50


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