Listen to This -- Alex Ross

<p>One of <i>The Telegraph</i>'s Best Music Books 2011 <p/>Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, <i>The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century</i>, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians.<i> Listen to This</i>, 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<i> The New Yorker</i>. 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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history--from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin--through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and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 us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Bj rk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. <p/>Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, <i>Listen to This </i>teaches us how to listen more closely.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Alex Ross<br><b>Publisher:</b> Picador USA<br><b>Published:</b> 10/25/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 380<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.90lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.40w