The Rest is Noise by 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 New York in the sixties and seventies. We meet the maverick personalities who have defied the classical past, and we follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics on this sweeping tour of twentieth-century history 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 | 9780374249397 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374249393 |
| Title | The Rest is Noise |
| Author | Alex Ross |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Year published | 2007-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Criticism 2008, Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2008, Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008 |
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