Music: a subversive history

Introduction --

The origin of music as a force of creative destruction --

Carnivores at the Philharmonic --

In search of a universal music --

Music history as a battle between magic and mathematics --

Bulls and sex toys --

The storyteller --

The invention of the singer --

The shame of music --

Unmanly music --

The devil's songs --

Oppression and musical innovation --

Not all wizards carry wands --

The invention of the audience --

Musicians behaving badly --

The origins of the music business --

Culture wars --

Subversives in wigs --

You say you want a revolution? --

The great flip-flop --

The aesthetics of diaspora --

Black music and the great American lifestyle crisis --

Rebellion goes mainstream --

Funky butt --

The origins of country music in the neolithic era --

Where did our love go? --

The sacrificial ritual -- Rappers and technocrats --

Welcome our new overlords --

Epilogue: This is not a manifesto.