Listen to This
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By Ross, Alex
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Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishingRoss as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 e...ssay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history-from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin-through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Bjork and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.
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ISBN |
9780312610685 |
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St Martin's Press |
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Trade Paperback/Paperback |
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ISBN-13 |
9780312610685 |
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Available |
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Internationally sourced; ships 6-14 working days |
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Publisher |
St Martin's Press |
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St Martin's Press |
Publication Country |
United States |
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Trade Paperback/Paperback
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Author(s) |
By Ross, Alex |
Category |
Theory Of Music & Musicology
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Number of Pages |
380 |
Dimensions |
Width: 137mm Height: 208mm Spine: 28mm |
Dewey Code |
780 |
Weight |
408g |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
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<p> An indispensable, erudite collection. -- Entertainment Weekly <p> Ross veers effortlessly from Mozart to Radiohead, and from Kurt Cobain to Brahms, bringing a pop fan's enthusiasm to the composers and treating the rock stars seriously as musicians....A joy for a pop fan or a classical aficionado. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> So graceful, so pithy, so thoughtful, and full of insight...one cannot believe that anyone who loves music would not love Listen to This. -- The Christian Science Monitor <p> No matter how complex his thinking, Ross renders it in lucid, approachable language: as you read Ross's writing, you hear him talking to you. --Fred Cohn, Opera News <br> [Ross] reminds me of my other favorite music critic, Bernard Shaw. --Roger Ebert <p> Even at his most cerebral, Ross deftly draws in the ears of the seasoned and the uninitiated alike, demystifying the traditions of music while celebrating its ability to transform. . . Listen to This is undenia |
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Author's Bio
ALEX ROSS has been the music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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