| International Standard Book Number |
9798893030532 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798893030525 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Ford, Andrew, 1957- author.
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| Title Statement |
The shortest history of music : from bone flutes to synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonce - 5,000 years of instrument and song / Andrew Ford.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : The Experiment, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
241 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Shortest history series
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| General Note |
"Originally published in Australia by Black, Inc. in 2024. First published in North America in revised form by The Experiment, LLC, in 2025."--Title page verso.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The Tradition of Music : from Prehistory to the Present -- Music and Notation : Blueprints for Building in Sound from 1400 BCE to the Present -- Music for Sale : Paying the Piper from 1000 BCE to the Present -- Music and Modernism : Reinventing the Art from 1150 to the Present -- Recording Music : from 1900 to the Present -- Epilogue. What Is Music?
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| Summary, Etc. |
"No other art is as popular -- or pervasive -- as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles -- even the brand-new Beyonce. But things weren't always this way. In this brisk, breakneck history under 300 pages, award-winning composer, author, and broadcaster Andrew Ford replays the dramatic evolution of music, from early oral songs to the first orchestras (and their wealthy patrons) and from the emergence of recording technology to the multibillion-dollar industry we know today. The Shortest History of Music explores the immense influence of religion, politics, and the economy on world music, what led humans to make music in the first place, and why -- in every era -- we are irresistibly drawn to listen to it." -- Publisher's website.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Music History and criticism.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Music Social aspects History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sound recordings History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Music Origin.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Musical instruments, Ancient.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Musical instruments History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Musical notation History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Music trade History.
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