The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross
The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross
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The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century

Author: Alex Ross

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 23 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

The Rest Is Noise takes the reader inside the labyrinth of modern sound. It tells of maverick personalities who have resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators

About Alex Ross

Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, the essay collection Listen to This, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg

This book took me way too long to read, which is a little strange because I found it very interesting and quite inspiring. I'm tempted to give it five stars, but I'm too much of a dilettante when it comes to cough, serious music to not necessarily take everything that the author is saying at face va......more

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