Listen to this

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Fourth Estate, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 364 pages
In 'Listen to This' Alex Ross 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.

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About the author (2010)

ALEX ROSS has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, published in 2007, was awarded The Guardian First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer and Samuel Johnson prizes. In 2008 he became a MacArthur Fellow. A native of Washington, DC, he now lives in Manhattan.

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