{"product_id":"9781433285653","title":"The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eRite of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, the brilliant music critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, shines a bright light on this secret world and shows how it has pervaded every corner of twentieth century life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Noise\u003c\/i\u003e takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern sound, from turn-of-the-century Vienna to bohemian Paris, from Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies. We meet the maverick personalities who have defied the classical past, and we follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics on this sweeping tour of twentieth-century history through its music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094534373616,"sku":"9781433285653","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781433285653_p0.jpg?v=1763750917","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781433285653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}