Music historian Ted Gioia joins us to talk about the outsiders that pushed music forward, throughout history.
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Singing A Sultry Tune
From sonnets to T-Swift, love songs have brought couples together and addressed the pain that sometimes comes with courtship. We’ll talk with music historian Ted Gioia about how these tunes have changed our culture.
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We're Through Being Cool
Does being cool, in effect, mean you are actually not cool at all? We’ll discuss the irony of today’s post-cool society with noted jazz critic and music historian Ted Gioia, whose new book is “The Birth (and Death) of the Cool” (Speck Press, 2009).
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