Alex Ross: Listen to This, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Listen to This
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- Verlag:
- Pan MacMillan, 10/2011
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312610685
- Artikelnummer:
- 9366650
- Umfang:
- 400 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2011
- Gewicht:
- 408 g
- Maße:
- 208 x 137 mm
- Stärke:
- 28 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 25.10.2011
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
One of The Telegraph 's Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross's 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 atThe 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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history-from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin-through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and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 Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing.
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, Listen to Thisteaches us how to listen more closely.
Biografie
Alex Ross, geboren 1968, ist seit 1996 der Musikkritiker des New Yorker. Davor schrieb er vier Jahre lang für die New York Times. Sein erstes Buch The Rest is Noise erschien 2013 auch in Deutschland, sein Essayband Listen to this noch nicht. Ross wurde ein Arts and Letters Award der American Academy of Arts and Letters verliehen, der Belmont Prize, ein Guggenheim Fellowship und ein MacArthur Fellowship. Er war 2002 Fellow der American Academy in Berlin.
