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product_id: 261343583
title: "Basic Books Music: A Subversive History"
brand: "ted gioia"
price: "12.31 OMR"
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reviews_count: 5
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# Basic Books Music: A Subversive History

**Brand:** ted gioia
**Price:** 12.31 OMR
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- **What is this?** Basic Books Music: A Subversive History by ted gioia
- **How much does it cost?** 12.31 OMR with free shipping
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Basic Books Music: A Subversive History

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## Customer Reviews

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    Quality
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2020*

The book came with the front cover smeared with something via somebody's fingers and a back page torn and creased. Was looking forward to reading this and I will return it because it's not such a big deal. But just feels a bit undignified to receive a brand new book in such a condition.

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    A laborious read
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in Canada on 21 August 2020*

I admit I didn’t finish the book! I surrendered about half way through. I am not a novice when it comes to reading works on musical history, having made it even through the Taruskin Volumes (!) However, this one was a challenge too pointless to face in toto. I just could not follow Gioia’s trains of thought. The book, or at least the half I read and  the other half I just flew over, is written in such a vague style that any number of pages seem like a big, foggy blur with hardly any highlights worth remembering. In fact, I wouldn’t even know how to summarize any of the chapters. If you are looking for a historical overview of music, which you might think this book is, you are better off with one of the standard works of Grout, Forney, Burkholder and the like.

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    Don't waste your money
  

*by W***2 on Reviewed in the United States on 3 January 2020*

A sophomoric and poorly written tome without an editor. Exasperating. Like reading an endless clickbait article on music. Find a more learned source about music history, there are tons better out there.

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