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Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Libro
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 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 genre. Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. In Listen To This Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker, looks both backwards and forwards 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. After relating his first encounter with classical music, Ross vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews wth modern pop masters such as Bjork and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and to indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. In his essay 'Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues', Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history - from Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin - through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross writes in a style at once erudite and lively, showing how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of the wider contemporary culture. Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Editore: Fourth Estate, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Regno Unito
Libro
Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. The free end page has been removed.
Editore: Farrar Straus, 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: MusicMagpie, Stockport, Regno Unito
Libro
Condizione: Very Good. 1712222553. 4/4/2024 9:22:33 AM.
Editore: Fourth Estate, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: Greener Books, London, Regno Unito
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
Editore: Fourth Estate, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Original Black Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 2010. xiii, 366pp. First printing of Listen to This. Black hardback with silver titles to spine, in excellent condition with no problems worth note. Dust jacket unclipped and also in excellent condition. "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 genre. Alex Ross?s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. In Listen To This Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker, looks both backwards and forwards 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. After relating his first encounter with classical music, Ross vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews wth modern pop masters such as Bjork and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and to indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. In his essay ?Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues?, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history - from Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin - through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross writes in a style at once erudite and lively, showing how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of the wider contemporary culture. Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.".
Editore: Fourth Estate, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Libro Prima edizione
Hardback. First Edition. Hardback. 364pp. First Edition. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Pages are very lightly tanned to margins else very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket Very good copy in like dust jacket.
Editore: Fourth Estate, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: Fireside Bookshop, Stroud, GLOS, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Libro Prima edizione
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition.
Editore: Fourth Estate, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Libro Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher's black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Inscribed by the author to title page: "For Nicholas, with endless gratitude for your support and friendship - from a happy author" - SIGNED and dated (December 2010). In near fine dust jacket, slightly creased to edges and with a little soiling to spine. First printing. Inscribed by Author(s).
Editore: Fourth Estate London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW UNREAD FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. No faults. First printing. Protected jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.
Editore: Fourth Estate, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine dustjacket (protected by a removable, clear thin mylar sleeve) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: London, England: Fourth Estate, 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007319061ISBN 13: 9780007319060
Da: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 366 pages. Published in 2010. Retrospective collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published simultaneously with the American Edition in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. "Signed By The Author" round white sticker pasted in front. Presents Alex Ross' "Listen To This". Illuminating and adventurous forays on music. Except for one magisterial piece that Ross wrote just for the book, all of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, have been slightly or significantly revised where appropriate, and are thereby the author's final versions. "Utilizes a wide musical scale: Classical music in China; opera as popular art; sketches of Schubert, Bjork, Kiki, and Herb, as a way of understanding the world. Ross offers timeless portraits that probe the ways that the powerful personalities of composers and musicians stamp an inherently abstract medium so that certain notes, songs, or choruses become instantly recognizable as the work of a certain artist. The virtuoso performance comes in the one previously unpublished essay, 'Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues', where Ross isolates three different bass lines as they wind through music history from the 16th-century chacona, a dance that promised the upending of the social order, through the laments of Bach, opera, and finally the blues" (Publishers Weekly). "Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Teaches us how to listen more closely" (Publisher's blurb). Just as his dazzling debut, "The Rest Is Noise", is best read and enjoyed as though it were a novel, his innate sense of narrative allows us to read his new collection as though it were a short story collection. Currently the Resident Music Critic of The New Yorker Magazine, Alex Ross succeeded not one but two of the greatest music critics we shall ever read: Andrew Porter and Paul Griffiths, both Brits. His essays are among the reasons The New Yorker Magazine remains necessary reading, nothing less than one of contemporary life's most civilized pleasures (but only for as long as he avoids his more, and seemingly inescapable, ideological bent of late). An absolute "must-have" title for Alex Ross collectors. This Autographed Copy is boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Alex Ross. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEX ROSS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0007319061. Signed by Author.