The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
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.Since 1996, Alex Ross has been The New Yorker's music critic. His debut book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Listen to This, his second collection of essays, won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. In 2008, he was designated a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2015, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312427719 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312427719 |
| Title | The Rest is Noise |
| Author | Alex Ross |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2008-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 720 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2008 |
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