Listen to This (Repost)
Alex Ross, "Listen to This"
English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0374187746, 0312610688 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0374187746, 0312610688 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
One of The Telegraph€™s Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross€™s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history€”from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin€”through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives
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