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The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century By Alex Ross

Posted at 4:18PM Wednesday 19 Mar 2008

The book achieves a remarkable interdisciplinary synthesis, in which music illuminates history as well as vice versa. Throughout, Ross fluently switches tempo and focus, between super-elegant New Yorker-style profiles of representative artists, and widescreen pans across whole movements and cultural periods, zooming in unerringly on fascinating detail.

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