The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By Alex Ross
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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.
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A New York Times bestseller
A 2008 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Nonfiction
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the 2008 Guardian First Book Award
A 2007 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Top 10 Book Time Magazine Top 10 Book for Nonfiction
A 2007 Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction
One of the 2007 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Nonfiction
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.
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Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction |
Runtime: | 23.13 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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