TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Alex
AU  - McMillian,Michelle
TI  - The rest is noise: listening to the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780312427719
AV  - ML197 .R76 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Music
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - "For my parents and Jonathan"; Includes index (pages 667-695); Part I: 1900-1933; Part II: 1933-1945; Part III: 1945-2000
N2  - 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
ER  -