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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

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ISBN: 9780312427719

Book Title: Rest Is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century

Publisher: Picador

Item Length: 8.3 in

Publication Year: 2008

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Illustrator: Yes

Item Height: 1.3 in

Author: Alex Ross

Genre: Music

Topic: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Genres & Styles / Rock

Item Weight: 26.5 Oz

Item Width: 5.7 in

Number of Pages: 720 Pages

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Picador

ISBN-10

0312427719

ISBN-13

9780312427719

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Book Title

Rest Is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century

Number of Pages

720 Pages

Language

English

Topic

History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Genres & Styles / Rock

Publication Year

2008

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Music

Author

Alex Ross

Format

Trade Paperback

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1.3 in

Item Weight

26.5 Oz

Item Length

8.3 in

Item Width

5.7 in

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Reviews

"The Rest Is Noiseis a great achievement."--The New York Times Book Review "The Rest Is Noiseis a long and thrilling ride. . . . Alex Ross writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence."--Salon, "The Rest Is Noiseis a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer,The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." --The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman,Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." --The Economist "The Rest Is Noiseis a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger,Salon.com "The best book on what music is about--reallyabout--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich,LA Weekly, The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly., Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other., It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words., " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- TheEconomist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . .[Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich, LA Weekly, " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- The Economist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich, LA Weekly, " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." -- Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." -- Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- The Economist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." -- Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own." -- Alan Rich, LA Weekly, " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- The Economist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich, LA Weekly, The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences.

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Table Of Content

Preface Where to Listen PART I: 1900-1933 1. The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle 2. Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality 3. Dance of the Earth: The Rite , the Folk, le Jazz 4. Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington 5. Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius 6. City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties PART II: 1933-1945 7. The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia 8. Music for All: Music in FDR's America 9. Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany PART III: 1945-2000 10. Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945-1949 11. Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties 12. "Grimes! Grimes!": The Passion of Benjamin Britten 13. Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties 14. Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists 15. Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century's End Epilogue Notes Suggested Listening and Reading Acknowledgements Index

Synopsis

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.

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