Listen to This by Alex Ross – review

Alex Ross's follow-up to The Rest is Noise delights in blurring the lines between pop, classical and jazzThe title of Alex Ross's book – a collection essays that supplements The Rest is Noise, his superb history of music in the 20th century – really needs an exclamation mark. The tone is hortatory; Ross is an enthusiast, as irrepressible and enlivening as a circus barker.He defines music, after all, as noise, and even adopts the official Soviet description of the art as "the sound made by t...

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