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Alex Ross

Alex graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at The New Yorker. His first book The Rest is Noise is about the cultural history of music since 1990, which won the Guardian First Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Alex now lives in Manhattan and is married to the actor and filmmaker Jonathan Lisecki.

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LISTEN TO THIS

Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross’s award-winning international best-seller, ‘The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century’, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music.

Publication date: UK 29th Sep 2011

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century [ePub edition]

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The inspiration behind the South Bank Centre’s year-long festival of 20th century music, Alex Ross’s masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground.

Publication date: UK 25th Aug 2011

LISTEN TO THIS

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In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre.

Publication date: UK 25th Nov 2010

LISTEN TO THIS [ePub edition]

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In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music.

Publication date: UK 25th Nov 2010

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Cover of: THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century

The inspiration behind the South Bank Centre’s year-long festival of 20th century music, Alex Ross’s masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground.

Publication date: UK 5th Mar 2009

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Cover of: THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century

The inspiration behind the South Bank Centre’s year-long festival of 20th century music, Alex Ross’s masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground.

Publication date: UK 3rd Mar 2008