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The Rest Is Noise
The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
by Alex Ross
  
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New York, NY: Picador (2008)

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A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year

"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross...his reporter's nose and exhaustive research result in more telling vignettes and notable anecdotes per chapter than any reader has a right to expect." --The Economist

In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross 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. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken in the world at large and the world of music. The Rest is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

ALEX ROSS, music critic for The New Yorker, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism.

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