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Rest Is Noise Series: Brave New World
The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties
About the Book
This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.
Content Overview
The Cold War breaks out and music explodes into a pandemonium of revolutions, counterrevolutions, theories, polemics, alliances, and party splits. The language of modern music is reinvented. This short ebook looks at some of the extraordinary compositions of this period.
Festival and Themes
Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art’s troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.
About the Author
Alex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Rest is Noise, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction.
