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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Author: Alex Ross
Hard cover, with dust jacket, very good condition.
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross is a sweeping, richly-detailed account of how Western music developed throughout the twentieth century — and how that musical evolution both reflected and shaped the era’s social, political and technological upheavals. Ross begins in the early 1900s (in Vienna and Paris) and carries the story through the rise of modernism, totalitarian regimes, war, mass culture and the explosion of new technologies into the late century, all told via the lives and works of major composers and movements. (Macmillan Publishers) His narrative shows how dissonance, atonality, electronic music, minimalism and other “noisy” experiments weren’t aberrations but courageous responses to a tumultuous world. (Bookforum) Ultimately, the book is both a history of music and a cultural history of the twentieth century, inviting readers not just to understand what composers did, but why they did it, and how we listen today. (Tradebooks for Courses)
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