New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has just published The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. A superb, accessible writer, Ross charts the social and cultural influences that shaped the music of the last century.
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has just published The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. A superb, accessible writer, Ross charts the social and cultural influences that shaped the music of the last century.
Fascinating! And not only because of the slow cuts and cigarette sponsorship. No YouTube video has ever held my attention for 9 minutes. Interesting to see Cage in the context of his time, and to watch how a pop-culture TV audience responds to his live performance. Great sounds, too.