{"product_id":"9780312610685","title":"Listen to This","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Music Books 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians.\u003ci\u003e Listen to This\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and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 Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether 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, \u003ci\u003eListen to This \u003c\/i\u003eteaches us how to listen more closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015865942256,"sku":"9780312610685","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312610685_p0.jpg?v=1763677367","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312610685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}