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| birth_place = Hawthorne, California, U.S.| death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Music historian, writer| notable_works = The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009); Work Songs (2006); Healing Songs (2006); Love Songs: The Hidden History (2015)Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts>B.A.) University of Oxford (Master's degree) Stanford Graduate School of Business>Stanford Business School (MBA)| relatives = Dana Gioia (brother)weblink}}}}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.

Early years

Gioia grew up in an Italian-Mexican household in Hawthorne, California, and later earned degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University, as well as an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He served for a period 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." 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 brother of poet Dana Gioia.

Career

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.Weiner, Natalie, "Re-Revising The History Of Jazz", NPR.org, July 15, 2021 (includes an interview with author Gioia) Love Songs: The Hidden History, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is a survey of the music of courtship, romance, and sexuality;Love Songs: The Hidden History, by Ted Gioia, at Penn State University Libraries 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."40th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Presented", ASCAPFoundation.org, October 15, 2007"48th Annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award Winners", ASCAPFoundation.org, November 8, 2016 In his study of love songs, Gioia contends that innovations in the history of this music came from Africa and the Middle East.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.Gioia, Ted, "The Red Rumor Blues," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2006 He founded the website jazz.com in December 2007 and served as president and editor until 2010weblink Gioia is also a jazz pianist and composer. He has produced recordings featuring Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, and Buddy Montgomery.

Awards and honors

Lifetime Achievement Award in Jazz Journalism, Jazz Journalists Association, 2017.WEB, Wadada Leo Smith Among Winners of 2017 JJA Awards,weblink DownBeat Magazine, 26 September 2018, 16 May 2017, 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.ASCAP Deems Taylor Award: The Imperfect Art (1989), Work Songs (2006), Healing Songs (2006), Love Songs: The Hidden History (2015).

Books

• Music: A Subversive History, Basic Books (2019); {{OCLC|1083153301}}
• (The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire), Oxford University Press (2012); {{OCLC|820009853}}
• The History of Jazz, Oxford University Press
  • 1st edn (1997); {{OCLC|36245922}}
  • 2nd edn (2011); {{OCLC|734057336}}
  • 3rd edn (2021); {{OCLC|1232214968}}
• How to Listen to Jazz, Basic Books (2016); {{OCLC|921864226}}
• The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, Speck Press (2009); {{OCLC|318875640}}
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters who Revolutionized American music, Norton (2008); {{OCLC|212893669}}
• West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960, Oxford University Press
  • 1st edn (1992); {{OCLC|24009620}}
  • 2nd edn (1998); {{OCLC|38747512}}
• The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture, Oxford University Press (1988); {{OCLC|17327524}}
• Love Songs: The Hidden History, Oxford University Press (2015); {{OCLC|880349805|906023459}}
• Work Songs, Duke University Press (2006); {{OCLC|61478791}}
• Healing Songs, Duke University Press (2006); {{OCLC|63702993}}

Selected discography

• The End of the Open Road, Ted Gioia Trio, Quartet Records Q1001 (1988); {{OCLC|32182337}}

• Tango Cool, Ted Gioia Trio, Quartet Record QCD1006 (1990); {{OCLC|23948930}}

• The City is a Chinese Vase (1998)

References

{{Reflist|refs=Contemporary Authors, Gale Group; {{ISSN|0887-3070}}{{space|4}}Vol.{{space|2}}127 (1989); {{OCLC|35395922}}{{space|4}}Vol.{{space|2}}86, new edition (2000); {{OCLC|43697091}}The International Authors and Writers Who's Who (12th edn), Ernest Kay (ed.), International Biographical Centre (1991); {{OCLC|59895267}}The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edn) (Gioia is in Vol. 2 of 3), Barry Dean Kernfeld (ed.), Macmillan Publishers (2002); {{OCLC|46956628}}.Who's Who in Entertainment (3rd edn, 1998–1999), Marquis Who's Who (1997); {{OCLC|54303731}}Ted Gioia, "Was the Love Song Invented in Africa and the Middle East", The Daily Beast, February 8, 2015."Post-Cool," {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204122810weblink |date=February 4, 2013 }} by Ted Gioia, Adbusters, December 15, 2011.Who's Who in the West, Marquis Who's Who; {{OCLC|0896-7709}}{{space|4}}24th edn, 1994–1995 (1993); {{OCLC|30525324}}{{space|4}}25th edn, 1996–1997 (1995); {{OCLC|33938880}}"100 Notable Books of 2008", The New York Times, November 26, 2008."Notable Books of the Year 1998", The New York Times, December 6, 1998.Michael Hoinski, "Come On Feel the Noise", Texas Monthly, September 2016.Cynthia Haven, weblink" title="archive.today/20070429184617weblink">"Changing His Tune", Stanford Alumni Association News, 2007.Barbara Ries, "Poet Provocateur", The Stanford Magazine, July/August 2000; {{ISSN|0745-3981}}}}

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