Ted Gioia

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Ted Gioia
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Ted Gioia in 1991 in the main quad of Stanford University
Born (1957-10-21) October 21, 1957 (age 66)
Hawthorne, California, U.S.
OccupationMusic historian, writer
Alma mater
Notable works
  • The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009)
  • Work Songs (2006)
  • Healing Songs (2006)
  • Love Songs: The Hidden History (2015)
Relatives Dana Gioia (brother)
Website
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Ted Gioia (born October 21, 1957) is an American jazz critic and music historian. He is author of eleven books, including Music: A Subversive History, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire , The History of Jazz and Delta Blues. He is also a jazz musician and one of the founders of Stanford University's jazz studies program. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Early life and education

Gioia grew up in an Italian-Mexican household in Hawthorne, California, and later earned degrees from Stanford University and the University of Oxford, as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [6]

Career

After graduating, Gioia served for a period[ clarification needed ] as an adviser to Fortune 500 companies while with the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company. When Gioia worked amidst Silicon Valley's venture capital community on Sand Hill Road, he was known as the "guy with the piano in his office." [7] Gioia is also owner of one of the largest collections of research materials on jazz and ethnic music in the Western United States.

Gioia is the author of several books on music, including Music: A Subversive History (2019), West Coast Jazz (1992), The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (2012), and The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009). A second updated and expanded edition of The History of Jazz was published by Oxford University Press in 2011, and a third revised edition was issued in 2021. [8] Love Songs: The Hidden History, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is a survey of the music of courtship, romance, and sexuality; [9] it completes a trilogy of books on the social history of music that includes Work Songs (2006) and Healing Songs (2006). All three books have been honored with ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award. [10] [11] In his study of love songs, Gioia contends that innovations in the history of this music came from Africa and the Middle East. [12]

In 2006, Gioia was the first to expose, in an article in the Los Angeles Times , the FBI files on folk and roots music icon Alan Lomax. [13] He founded the website jazz.com in December 2007 and served as president and editor until 2010. [14]

Gioia is also a jazz pianist and composer. He has produced recordings featuring Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, and Buddy Montgomery.

Books

Selected discography

Recorded June 9–11, 1986, and October 19, 1987, Menlo Park, California
Recorded March 31, 1989, and April 7, 1990, San Francisco

Awards and honors

Lifetime Achievement Award in Jazz Journalism, Jazz Journalists Association, 2017. [31]

The Dallas Morning News has called Ted Gioia "one of the outstanding music historians in America." His concept of "post-cool" described in his book The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, was selected as one of the Big Ideas of 2012 by Adbusters magazine. [32]

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award: The Imperfect Art (1989), Work Songs (2006), Healing Songs (2006), Love Songs: The Hidden History (2015). [32]

Personal life

Gioia is the brother of poet Dana Gioia. [33] [34]


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  3. ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edn) (Gioia is in Vol. 2 of 3), Barry Dean Kernfeld (ed.), Macmillan Publishers (2002); OCLC   46956628.
  4. ↑ Who's Who in Entertainment (3rd edn, 1998–1999), Marquis Who's Who (1997); OCLC   54303731
  5. ↑ Who's Who in the West, Marquis Who's Who; OCLC   0896-7709
        24th edn, 1994–1995 (1993); OCLC   30525324
        25th edn, 1996–1997 (1995); OCLC   33938880
  6. ↑ Perell, David (2024). "Addicted to Distraction with Ted Gioia on the How I Write Podcast". apple.com.
  7. ↑ Michael Hoinski, "Come On Feel the Noise", Texas Monthly, September 2016.
  8. ↑ Weiner, Natalie, "Re-Revising The History Of Jazz", NPR.org, July 15, 2021 (includes an interview with author Gioia)
  9. ↑ Love Songs: The Hidden History, by Ted Gioia, at Penn State University Libraries
  10. ↑ "40th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Presented", ASCAPFoundation.org, October 15, 2007
  11. ↑ "48th Annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award Winners", ASCAPFoundation.org, November 8, 2016
  12. ↑ Ted Gioia, "Was the Love Song Invented in Africa and the Middle East", The Daily Beast , February 8, 2015.
  13. ↑ Gioia, Ted, "The Red Rumor Blues," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2006
  14. ↑ https://wwnorton.com/author/GIOIATED/tedgioia
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  29. ↑ Duke University Press (2006); OCLC   61478791 [ ISBN missing ]
  30. ↑ Duke University Press (2006); OCLC   63702993 [ ISBN missing ]
  31. ↑ "Wadada Leo Smith Among Winners of 2017 JJA Awards". DownBeat Magazine. May 16, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  32. 1 2 "Post-Cool," Archived February 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine by Ted Gioia, Adbusters , December 15, 2011.
  33. ↑ Cynthia Haven, "Changing His Tune", Stanford Alumni Association News, 2007.
  34. ↑ Barbara Ries, "Poet Provocateur", The Stanford Magazine, July/August 2000; ISSN   0745-3981
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