The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century
Ross, Alex, 1968-2009
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Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution. The landscape of 20th-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the 'New Yorker', explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Bjork, pre-First World War Vienna to 'Nixon in China'. Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how 20th-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change. This edition includes a definitive list of the greatest recordings of 20th-century music.
Main title:
Author:
Ross, Alex, 1968-, author
Edition:
[New edition].
Imprint:
London : Harper Perennial, 2009.
Collation:
xviii, 695 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London: Fourth Estate, 2007.Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Awards:
Guardian First Book Award 2008
ISBN:
9781841154763 (pbk. :)
Local class:
780.904
Language:
English
BRN:
727243