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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

By Alex Ross
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Unabridged — 23 hours, 7 minutes
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By Alex Ross
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Unabridged — 23 hours, 7 minutes
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The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker, shows how modern music has pervaded every corner of twentieth-century life.

The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern sound, f...

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