Gioia argues that new music comes from disruptors, that “innovation in music requires an outsider’s stance,” that “insiders might very well run the wheels of commerce, but they [..] rely on outsiders ...

The post Old Music Now Makes Up Nearly 70% of American Consumption: Report appeared first on Consequence. Is old music killing new music? A new study suggests that old songs make up a larger share of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. First published in 2012, The Jazz Standards has received feedback and suggestions ...

In this excellent history, music critic Gioia (How to Listen to Jazz) dazzles with tales of how music grew out of violence, sex, and rebellion. Gioia opens with humans fashioning musical instruments ...

Ted Gioia is better known for his books, but a tune he composed decades ago as a musician found new life on the popular TV drama. Before he became a leading music historian, Texas resident Ted Gioia ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Hajdu MUSIC A Subversive History By Ted Gioia The self-negating, self-perpetuating cycle of ...

The last time an especially fine historian and critic published a “how to” book aimed at audiences on the most basic level was David Thomson’s “How to Watch a Movie.” Despite patches of poetry and ...

My passage as a listener into the jazz world was accidental and fortuitous. As a young rock fan browsing the vinyl cutouts at Jack's Record Rack, I found one of Miles Davis' Live at the Blackhawk ...

According to one analysis by a music analytics firm, 70% of the U.S. music market comes from songs at least two years old, with much of it decades old. We dig into this with music writer Ted Gioia.

This mural of the groundbreaking gangsta rap group N.W.A., in the famous art district of Wynwood in Miami, was created by a group of Latino artists known as TATS CRU. (Wikimedia Commons) This nearly ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...