Displaying 1 of 1 2022 Format: Book Author: Isacoff, Stuart, author. Title: Musical revolutions : how the sounds of the world changed / Stuart Isacoff. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Description: 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary: "From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history-classical, jazz, rock-all of which forever altered Western culture"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Music -- History and criticism. Music and history. Notes: "This is a Borzoi Book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index. Contents: Introduction -- Singing from Symbols -- Tones Like Coiling Vines -- The birth of opera -- Out of the Bachs -- The showoffs -- The alchemy of sound -- Jazz goes to Paris -- A great noise -- Emancipating the dissonance -- Bebop -- Miles ahead -- Process music --A question of sex -- Mozart among the lotus blossoms -- Epilogue. The revolutionary spirit. LCCN: 2021045361 ISBN: 9780525658634 Other Number: 1268206622 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 976582 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 780.9 Isacoff Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1