Listen to This - Alex Ross

Alex Ross, Alex Ross

Category: Misc. Non-fiction

Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, History

Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins Release date: 09-29-10, One of The Telegraphs Best Music Books 2011, Alex Rosss 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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music historyfrom Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelinthrough a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Bjrk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music s