{"product_id":"listen-to-this-9780312610685","title":"Listen to This","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Music Books 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history--from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin--through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and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 Bj rk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eALEX ROSS\u003c\/b\u003e has been the music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655371493650,"sku":"9780312610685","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90d85672-8246-436b-b140-c6d204ec259f.jpg?v=1733379978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/listen-to-this-9780312610685","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}