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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

By Alex Ross

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2008
ISBN
0312427719, 9780312427719
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2294908 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
494\494
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Искусство и искусствоведение;Музыкальное искусство

Description

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007In 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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