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368 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780297847502
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Edition Pub Date: 01 November 2008
Description
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today’s rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordina...
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368 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780297847502
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Edition Pub Date: 01 November 2008
Description
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today’s rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordina...