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Macmillan
October 2010
On Sale: September 28, 2010
384 pages
ISBN: 0374187746
EAN: 9780374187743
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Non-Fiction
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest
Is Noise, has become a contemporary classic, establishing
him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural
historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a
beloved 2004 essay in which Ross described his late-blooming
discovery of pop music, showcases the best of Ross’s writing
from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces,
dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at
once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay,
Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music
history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a
few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He
vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert,
Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern
pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us
to music students at a Newark high school and to indie-rock
hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how
music expresses the full complexity of the human condition.
Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This
teaches us how to listen.
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