Listen to This

AvAlex Ross

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Engelska, 2010

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In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music.From his own first encounter with classical music to vibrant sketches of Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; from in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead to the lives of a high school’s music students, Ross shows how music can express the full complexity of human experience. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of wider contemporary culture.Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-25
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780007357147
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Världsmusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

ALEX ROSS has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, published in 2007, was awarded The Guardian First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer and Samuel Johnson prizes. In 2008 he became a MacArthur Fellow. A native of Washington, DC, he now lives in Manhattan.

Recensioner i media

'A magical mystery tour. The literary equivalent of an iPod on shuffle' Guardian 'Intensely illuminating. He wants to show you what is important about music, how it connects to the world and why you should care' Observer 'Dazzling. No one writing about classical music today has Ross's gift for lateral thinking, for pinning down references and cues and scraps of sound that elude the rest of us' Sunday Telegraph 'Ross can stride nimbly over the keyboard of time and style without losing his ear for the feeling behind the form' Independent