{"product_id":"9781841154763-the-rest-is-noise","title":"The Rest is Noise","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eListening to the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Ross’s sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Ross’s sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThe landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the ‘New Yorker’, explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Björk, pre-First World War Vienna to ‘Nixon in China’.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eAbove all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a definitive list of the greatest recordings of twentieth-century music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535948456310,"sku":"9781841154763","price":20.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27257946.jpg?v=1774283503","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781841154763-the-rest-is-noise","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}