Erscheint in Kürze Abbildung von Ford | The Shortest History of Music | 1. Auflage | 2025 | beck-shop.de

Ankündigung Erscheint in Kürze

Ford

The Shortest History of Music

From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé - 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song

Jetzt vorbestellen! Wir liefern bei Erscheinen

Rezensionen ansehen

Standardpreis

ca. 12,50 €

Preisangaben inkl. MwSt. Abhängig von der Lieferadresse kann die MwSt. an der Kasse variieren. Weitere Informationen

Buch. Softcover

2025

256 S. 37 black-and-white photos and illustrations.

In englischer Sprache

Norton & Company. ISBN 9798893030525

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: The Shortest History Series

Produktbeschreibung

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 Beyoncé. 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.

The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.