Author: Alex Ross
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0312427719
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0312427719
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year
Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007
Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007
A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007
In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present.. Download books The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century for free.
'Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle ''Award for Criticism''A 'New York Times Book Review 'Top Ten Book of the Year'Time 'magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007'Newsweek' Favorite Books of 2007''A' Washington Post Book World 'Best Book of 2007'In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for 'The New Yorker,' weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. 'The Rest Is Noise' is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Alex Ross
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker, shows how modern music has pervaded every corner of twentieth-century life. The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern sound, from turn-of-the-century Vienna to bohemian Paris, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown
The Rest Is Noise, ISBN-13: 9781433207921, ISBN-10: 1433207923
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