![]() Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand more seeingly in front of certain paintings. Review Quotes The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. ![]() The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the centurys most influential composers and the wider culture. Book 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 Hitlers Germany and Stalins Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. ![]() ![]() The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music. ![]() About the Book Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. ![]()
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