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020			_a9781841154763
082			_a780.904 _bROS
100			_aRoss, Alex
245			_aThe rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century
260			_bFourth Estate, _c2007 _aLondon :
300			_axviii, 695 p. ; _b[8] p. of plates : ill., ports., _c24 cm
365			_b16.99 _c₤ _d109.40
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references, discography and index.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aComposers
650			_a20th century
650			_aBiography
650			_aCriticism, interpretation
650			_aMusic
650			_aMusicians
650			_aCity of nets
650			_aZero hour
650			_aMinimalists
650			_aSunken cathedrals
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