Listen to This - Couverture rigide

Ross, Alex

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374187746 ISBN 13 : 9780374187743

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010

Synopsis

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 at" The 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 In a previously unpublished""essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music""history--from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin--through a few""iconic bass lines of celebration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 Bjork""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 This "teaches us how to listen more closely.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Né à Washington en 1968, Alex Ross est écrivain et journaliste. Son premier livre, The Rest is Noise, paru aux Etats-Unis en 2008 et en France en 2010, a été finaliste pour le prix Pulitzer dans la catégorie "essais" et a figuré dans le "Top Ten" de grands journaux généralistes tels que The Washington Post, The Economist ou Newsweek. Tout aussi unanime, la critique de Listen to This a comparé Alex Ross à George Bernard Shaw.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Après le succès de The Rest is Noise, le critique américain Alex Ross revient avec Listen to This, un cocktail revigorant d'essais sur la musique pop, rock, jazz et classique.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374187746
• ISBN 13: 9780374187743
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible