ISBN10: 0007319061, ISBN13: 9780007319060, [publisher: Fourth Estate] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. The free end page has been removed
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]
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ISBN10: 0007319061, ISBN13: 9780007319060, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London] Softcover In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward 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 in whatever genre. Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, 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. In Listen To This 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 ...

ISBN10: 0007319061, ISBN13: 9780007319060, [publisher: Farrar Straus, 2010] Hardcover
[Stockport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]