The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century /
Alex Ross.
- [New] ed.
- London : Harper Perennial, 2009.
- xviii, 695 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Previous ed.: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London: Fourth Estate, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties.