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Ted Gioia
Ted Gioia can be contacted at
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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 an Italian translation of his
The
History of Jazz is in the works.  

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, soon available on
DVD and shown on
The History Channel.

Be on the lookout for Ted's next book Delta Blues in October.  Read
the  
starred pre-publication review in Publishers Weekly and the
positive review in Jazz Review.   Check back soon for details on his
promotional book tour.


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).