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Best Music Writing 2011 by Alex Ross
$23.99 AUD
Category: Music
Twelfth in the acclaimed series of annual collections celebrating the best in music writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more. "Best Music Writing" has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writin ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
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 gen ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
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 titl ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
$36.95 AUD
Category: Music
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 people how to listen.
New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza; Sarah Booker (Translator); Lisa Dillman (Translator); Francisca González Arias (Translator); Alex Ross (Translator)
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur "genius" Cristina Rivera Garza. "One of Mexico's greatest living writers," wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Gar ...Show more
The Rest Is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
$49.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
"Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle ""Award for Criticism ""A "New York Times Book Review "Top Ten Book of the Year "Time "magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 "Los Angeles Times "Favorite Book of 2007 "In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross weaves together the histories of ...Show more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and ...Show more
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and ...Show more
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