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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alex RossPublish date:2008-10-14Pages:720
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312427719ISBN-10:312427719UPC:9780312427719Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Modern, Genres & StylesBook Topic:20th Century, RockSize:8.22 x 5.52 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.25Product ID:SC44MY95X3

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312427719ISBN-10:312427719UPC:9780312427719Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Modern, Genres & StylesBook Topic:20th Century, RockSize:8.22 x 5.52 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.25Product ID:SC44MY95X3
Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, the essay collection Listen to This, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.
Publisher: Picador USA

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