The Inability to Look at These Corners and Ase

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The conditions that create innovation and art are the same ones that create disease. Everywhere found a major artistic innovation, it was always like a port city. It was some place where people gathered together from differnt cultures. I even trace this back to ancient egypt. There was a village where the love song was born. The troubadore revolution in europe came out of the south of france,. Where he borrowed from spain, with things coming inthrough africa. Even if a few years ago, the syrian refugees were all startig indi upon a les post, the same island where the greek lyrop was born. A thousand, two thousand years ago, till

Ted Gioia is a leading music historian and author of 11 books including “The History of Jazz” and “Music: A Subversive History”. He combines his cultural expertise with an extensive business background as a strategy consultant and Stanford MBA.

He also writes an incredibly insightful Substack: https://tedgioia.substack.com/

You can find him on Twitter: @TedGioia

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro + Ted’s Background
(00:03:16) - Why Culture Is Looking Backwards
(00:09:08) - Financialization Of Entertainment
(00:11:52) - Music And The Lindy Effect
(00:16:12) - How To Foster A Counterculture
(00:20:01) - Why Music Innovation Comes From Outsiders
(00:25:58) - How Music Changes Your Body Chemistry
(00:34:47) - The Downside Of The “Four Chords” Pop Music Formula
(00:40:32) - How To Do Compounding Work
(00:45:55) - How To Pursue A Creative Career
(00:49:40) - Ted’s Thoughts On Rene Girard
(00:55:22) - Rene Girard And Rock Music
(01:02:35) - Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley

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