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Listen to This (Paperback)
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Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross's award-winning
international best-seller, 'The Rest is Noise: Listening to the
Twentieth Century', has become a contemporary classic, establishing
him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians;
this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music. In
'Listen To This' Alex Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker,
looks both backwards and forwards in time, capturing essential
figures and ideas in classical music history, as well as giving an
alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of
the individual musical voice. After relating his first encounter
with classical music, Ross vibrantly sketches canonical composers
such as Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews
wth modern pop masters such as Bjork and Radiohead; and introduces
us to music students at a Newark high school and to indie-rock
hipsters in Beijing. In his essay 'Chacona, Lamento, Walking
Blues', Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history
- from Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin - through a few iconic
bass lines of celebration and lament. Whether his subject is Mozart
or Bob Dylan, Ross writes in a style at once erudite and lively,
showing how music expresses the full complexity of the human
condition. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high
art and how classical music can become a vital part of the wider
contemporary culture. Witty, passionate and brimming with insight,
'Listen to This' teaches us to listen more closely.
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