New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (2010). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (his name only). New/New. A pristine unread copy, mint in all respects, opened only for author to sign. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. (Smoke-free, no marks, no defects, etc). Shipped in well padded box. In this collection of essays, music critic Ross features revised essays published originally in the span of his 12-year career at the New Yorker.

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Title

Listen To This (Signed First Edition)

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux, New York

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

0374187746

ISBN 13

9780374187743

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

New

Dust Jacket Condition

New

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Music

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One of The Telegraph��s Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross��s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, 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 The New Yorker. 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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history��from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin��through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and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

About the Author

ALEX ROSS 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.

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