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Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (2008)

Ted Gioia takes a somewhat dry, academic and definitely hit-and-miss look at a great subject. The title is misleading as two-thirds of the book is about Chicago bluesmen with roots in the Mississippi Delta: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, et al. The real roots of Delta Blues remain almost as myste...

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (2008) by Ted Gioia
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The History of Jazz (1998)

This was an excellent overview of the topic, one of the best (probably the best, unless I'm blanking on something) I've encountered. Gioia does a great job of balancing the various strains of history -- aesthetic, social/cultural, economic, biographical –- required to fully grasp the topic, resu...

The History of Jazz (1998) by Ted Gioia

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