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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Paperback - 2008

by Ross, Alex

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Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.

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  • Title The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth
  • Author Ross, Alex
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 720
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Date 2008-10-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # FORT709447
  • ISBN 9780312427719 / 0312427719
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.52 x 1.17 in (20.88 x 14.02 x 2.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - 20th century - History and criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.904

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 11/02/2008, Page 24

About the author

Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, the essay collection Listen to This, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.

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