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Ted Gioia can be contacted at
tedgioia@hotmail.com
For promotional photos, click here
Also visit Great Books Guide
tedgioia@hotmail.com
For promotional photos, click here
Also visit Great Books Guide
Photo by Kent Barker
Ted Gioia is a musician and author, and has published five non-fiction
books. His work The History of Jazz was selected as one of the twenty best
books of the year by Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post, and was
chosen as a notable book of the year in The New York Times. Gioia’s next
book, Delta Blues, will be published in October by Norton, and is a major
study of traditional blues music. He is currently writing a blog, articles and
reviews for www.jazz.com.
RECENT ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS
Breaking news . . .
Ted Gioia's The Imperfect Art now available in an Italian translation.
A Greek translation is forthcoming.
Also Chinese and Italian translations of his The History of Jazz are in
the works. A Spanish translation is already available here.
Be on the lookout for Ted's next book Delta Blues in October. Read
the starred pre-publication review in Publishers Weekly and the
review in Jazz Review. Check back soon for details on his
promotional book tour.
ASCAP announces that Ted Gioia's two books Work Songs and
Healing Songs have received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Special
Recognition Award
See Ted in a new jazz documentary by Lucasfilm, now available on
DVD, and scheduled to be shown on The History Channel.
Ted takes over the helm of www.jazz.com.
Hear Ted Gioia talking to All Things Considered on NPR about his
recent book Work Songs. [Link Here]
Ted Gioia now reviewing fiction for Blogcritics --see his essay on
Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, his article "Robert
Heinlein at One Hundred" and reviews of novels by Ian McEwan,
Michael Chabon, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Lethem, Don DeLillo,
Roberto Bolaño, Ann Patchett,Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy.
Now available on-line -- a profile of Ted in Stanford Magazine
Download Ted's music from The City is a Chinese Vase here or here
Visit his literary web site Great Books Guide (www.greatbooksguide.
com).
Read his provocative Nobel Prize in Literature from an Alternative
Universe
See Ted Gioia's other recent publications, including his essay on
cowboy songs in American Scholar, his article on Alan Lomax's FBI
files in the Los Angeles Times, and his reviews of Michael Ondaatje's
Divisadero and the 50th anniversary edition of Jack Kerouac's On the
Road in The Weekly Standard.
Check out his new feature in Blogcritics, The New Canon, featuring
great works of fiction published since 1985, and be on the lookout for
his new web site The New Canon (www.thenewcanon.com).
books. His work The History of Jazz was selected as one of the twenty best
books of the year by Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post, and was
chosen as a notable book of the year in The New York Times. Gioia’s next
book, Delta Blues, will be published in October by Norton, and is a major
study of traditional blues music. He is currently writing a blog, articles and
reviews for www.jazz.com.
RECENT ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS
Breaking news . . .
Ted Gioia's The Imperfect Art now available in an Italian translation.
A Greek translation is forthcoming.
Also Chinese and Italian translations of his The History of Jazz are in
the works. A Spanish translation is already available here.
Be on the lookout for Ted's next book Delta Blues in October. Read
the starred pre-publication review in Publishers Weekly and the
review in Jazz Review. Check back soon for details on his
promotional book tour.
ASCAP announces that Ted Gioia's two books Work Songs and
Healing Songs have received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Special
Recognition Award
See Ted in a new jazz documentary by Lucasfilm, now available on
DVD, and scheduled to be shown on The History Channel.
Ted takes over the helm of www.jazz.com.
Hear Ted Gioia talking to All Things Considered on NPR about his
recent book Work Songs. [Link Here]
Ted Gioia now reviewing fiction for Blogcritics --see his essay on
Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, his article "Robert
Heinlein at One Hundred" and reviews of novels by Ian McEwan,
Michael Chabon, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Lethem, Don DeLillo,
Roberto Bolaño, Ann Patchett,Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy.
Now available on-line -- a profile of Ted in Stanford Magazine
Download Ted's music from The City is a Chinese Vase here or here
Visit his literary web site Great Books Guide (www.greatbooksguide.
com).
Read his provocative Nobel Prize in Literature from an Alternative
Universe
See Ted Gioia's other recent publications, including his essay on
cowboy songs in American Scholar, his article on Alan Lomax's FBI
files in the Los Angeles Times, and his reviews of Michael Ondaatje's
Divisadero and the 50th anniversary edition of Jack Kerouac's On the
Road in The Weekly Standard.
Check out his new feature in Blogcritics, The New Canon, featuring
great works of fiction published since 1985, and be on the lookout for
his new web site The New Canon (www.thenewcanon.com).