The Rest Is Noise

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2007 nonfiction book by American music critic Alex Ross

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a 2007 nonfiction book by the American music critic Alex Ross, first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.^[1] It recounts the history of European and American music, starting in 1900, and highlights many examples.^[2] According to Grove Music Online, the book was intended to "open musical discourse to the broader educated public".^[2]

It received widespread critical praise in the U.S. and Europe, garnering a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism,^[3]^[4]^[5] a Guardian First Book Award,^[6] a Premio Napoli,^[7] and the 2011 Grand Prix des Muses [fr].^[8] The Rest is Noise was also on the New York Times list of the ten best books of 2007 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The book was shortlisted for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction.^[9]

References

^ Ross, Alex (2008). The Rest Is Noise. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-84115-475-6.
^ ^a ^b Andrea F. Bohlman (20 January 2016) [26 November 2013]. "Ross, Alex". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2289326.
^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces 2007 Award Winners". the American Booksellers Association. 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
^ "2007 NBCC Winners Announced". National Book Critics Circle. 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
^ Rich, Motoko (2008-03-07). "National Book Critics Circle Awards". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
^ "Guardian first book award: all the winners". the Guardian. 7 April 2016.
^ "Premio Napoli 2007-2011 - Fondazione Premio Napoli". Fondazione Premio Napoli.
^ "Grand prix des Muses 2011 à Alex Ross pour "The Rest is Noise" - Actes Sud". www.actes-sud.fr.
^ "BBC Four - 2008 Shortlist for Samuel Johnson Prize".