Diversity as the Engine of Musical Innovation
This is the latest installment in a series of unscripted video talks featuring music historian Ted Gioia. "In these videos," Gioia explains, "I'm aiming to provide an informal and conversational entry point into the 'big picture' issues in our current-day music culture."
Here Gioia explores the hidden connections between diversity and musical innovation, and draws on evidence from ancient Egypt, medieval troubadours, Greek lyrics, early jazz and rock 'n' roll, and other disjunctive situations in cultural history.
For more information on Ted Gioia, visit his website at http://www.tedgioia.com or follow him on Twitter at / tedgioia . His next book, Music: A Subversive History, will be published by Basic Books in 2019.