Ross, Alex, 1968-
The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross ; designed by Michelle McMillian. - xviii, 695 pages : photographs ; 21 cm.
"For my parents and Jonathan" Includes index (pages 667-695).
Part I: 1900-1933. Part II: 1933-1945. Part III: 1945-2000.
The scandal over modern music has not died--while paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for millions of dollars, works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalist music has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward. Music critic Alex Ross shines a bright light on this secret world, taking us from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, and riots. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.--From publisher description.
On Of The 10 Best Books Of The Year - The New York Times Book Review.
9780312427719 0312427719
Music--History and criticism--20th century
ML197 / .R76 2007
The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross ; designed by Michelle McMillian. - xviii, 695 pages : photographs ; 21 cm.
"For my parents and Jonathan" Includes index (pages 667-695).
Part I: 1900-1933. Part II: 1933-1945. Part III: 1945-2000.
The scandal over modern music has not died--while paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for millions of dollars, works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalist music has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward. Music critic Alex Ross shines a bright light on this secret world, taking us from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, and riots. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.--From publisher description.
On Of The 10 Best Books Of The Year - The New York Times Book Review.
9780312427719 0312427719
Music--History and criticism--20th century
ML197 / .R76 2007