{"product_id":"listen-to-this-9780374187743","title":"Listen to This","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen to This\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ross, Alex. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374187743.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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 In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history€”from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin€”through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789384409141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374187746","price":27.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374187743_dfa47ad8-b95e-4fd8-af88-ec15572fcdc5.jpg?v=1784751198","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/listen-to-this-9780374187743","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}