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Piero Scaruffi (born in Trivero, Italy, in 1955, but based in California since 1983) is an Italian music historian. He has also written scientific and philosophical essays about cognitive science and is an amateur poet.

Work as a historian and critic

Scaruffi has lectured on the history of knowledge subject, but is more famous as a historian of modern music.
   He has self-published books on the history of rock music, avant garde music, jazz, and modern popular music. His most popular book is A History of Rock Music (2003), a thick scholarly work that spans 50 years of the genre. His writings on music are hosted online on his website, scaruffi.com, and includes a history of jazz and a history of modern classical music. The website, especially its music section, was the subject of an article in the New York Times on October 15, 2006.
   His rock history has become slightly famous over the Internet partly because of its controversial ratings, which often differ greatly from most of the music press and the mainstream. The most significant example is his page about the Beatles, who, in Scaruffi's opinion, are the most overrated band ever. He writes: "The Beatles most certainly belong to the history of the 60s, but their musical merits are at best dubious.".
   Believing that one can't understand the human mind without first understanding what the human mind does, and that, fundamentally, the human mind creates civilizations, he also embarked in a study of the history of knowledge. He has been on the board of the art magazine Leonardo (MIT Press) and has chaired events of Leonardo's Bay Area Scientists Working Group aimed at bridging the gap between the arts and the sciences .

Other works

Philosophy

His metaphysics is based on his studies in Physics. Scaruffi reached the conclusion that Relativity Theory is about the universe, about the dimensions of existence, whereas Quantum Theory is about the human world of objects, about the world of "sizes". Relativistic spacetime is the equivalent of an ocean, and quantum values are the equivalent of the ripples caused by an object moving through the ocean of spacetime: Relativity is the theory about the ocean, and Quantum Theory is the theory about the ripples. Quantum Theory describes the ripples caused in spacetime by energy-matter in motion.

Poetry

His most notable poem is widely considered "Dialogo degli Amanti/ Dialogue of the Lovers", a dialogue among three characters (identified as "m", "f" and " ", the third one being probably a reference to a superhuman entity).
In 2007 he came third in the first Fog City Writers poetry contest.

Notes and References

Notable publications

Scaruffi, Piero. (2007). A History of Jazz Music 1900-2000. ISBN 978-0-9765531-3-7
Scaruffi, Piero. (2007). A History of Popular Music before Rock Music. ISBN 978-0-9765531-2-0
Scaruffi, Piero. (2006). The Nature of Consciousness. ISBN 0976553112
Scaruffi, Piero. (2003). A History of Rock Music. iUniverse. ISBN 0595295657
Scaruffi, Piero. (2003). Thinking About Thought: A primer on the new science of mind. iUniverse. ISBN 0595264204

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