Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. At the same time, its influence can be felt everywhere. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of alienated teenagers across the land, twentieth-century classical music still sends ripples of unease through audiences. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. The Rest Is Noise is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains for many people an obscure and forbidding world. A New York Times, LA Times, and Boston Globebestseller translated into fifteen languages inspired a year-long festival at the Southbank Centre in 2013. Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, the 2008 Guardian First Book Award, a 2010 Premio Napoli prize in foreign literature, the 2011 Grand Prix des Muses, and a Music Pen Club prize in Japan finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2007 also on best-of-the-year lists in the Washington Post, the LA Times, New York, Time, The Economist, Slate, and Newsweek. Alex Ross's enthralling history of 20th-century music is, for me, one of those books." - Alan Rusbridger, Guardian "Just occasionally someone writes a book you've waited your life to read. a great achievement." - Geoff Dyer, New York Times Book Review
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