Chapter 1: The Biology of the Love Song
Chapter 2: Procreative Music
Chapter 3: Sappho and Confucius
Chapter 4: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Love Song
Chapter 5: The Thousand Year Repression
Chapter 6: The Middle East -- North African Connection
Chapter 7: The Troubadours
Chapter 8: The Triumph of the Love Song
Chapter 9: A Love Supreme
Chapter 10: Profane Love
Chapter 11: Love at the Opera
Chapter 12: Folk Ballads
Chapter 13: Love and the Rise of the Music Business
Chapter 14: Love Songs in Modern Times
Ted Gioia is a music historian and the author of nine books, including The History of Jazz and Delta Blues, both selected as notable books of the year in The New York Times. Love Songs continues his pioneering research into the music of everday life, previously featured in Work Songs and Healing Songs, both winners of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.
"[a] wide-ranging and fascinating study" --PD Smith, The
Guardian
"Gioia's book covers a tremendous amount of ground and gives you
something to remember on almost every page." -- The New Yorker
"Gioia has constructed a mind-expanding, deep-focus piece of
scholarship here..." -- The Atlantic
"Gioia's is always an intellectual odyssey worth attending to." --
The Buffalo News
"Taking a somewhat chronological approach to the subject, Gioia has
used his extensive knowledge of love songs throughout time and
human history to write an unorthodox examination of this topic. The
reader is transported from bird song to ancient Rome, from the
troubadours to folk songs, from crooners to contemporary rappers.
This is a fascinating approach. Essential." --Choice
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