In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre. Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. In Listen To This Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker, looks both backwards and forwards in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice. After relating his first encounter with classical music, Ross vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews wth modern pop masters such as Bjork and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and to indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. In his essay 'Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues', Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history - from Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin - through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross writes in a style at once erudite and lively, showing how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of the wider contemporary culture. Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.

Listen to This

Arts & Photography

Alex Ross

Music

Fourth Estate (GB)

Fourth Estate

Wagnerism

4th Estate

Earth X

EARTH X [NEW PRINTING 2]

Teen & Young Adult

JIM KRUEGER

Literature & Fiction

Bt Bound

A terrible experiment has left ordinary humans living on Earth X with super powers and super heroes such as Spider Man, Captain America, and the Incredible Hulk trying to differentiate themselves from the new breed of super humans. Original.

Earth X (Earth X 1)

Comics & Graphic Novels

John Paul Leon

Graphic Novels

Marvel Comics

Universe X, Vol. 1 (Earth X 2)

SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by JIM KRUEGER and ALEX ROSS. Art by DOUGIE BRAITHWAITE, BILL REINHOLD, STEVE PUGH, STEVE YEOWELL, and BILL SIENKIEWICZ. Cover by ALEX ROSS. Published in 2007. Softcover, 304 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Paradise X, Vol. 1 (Earth X 4)

Marvel Enterprises

Earth X is a 1999 comic book limited series written by Jim Krueger with art by John Paul Leon and published by Marvel Comics. Based on Alex Ross' notes, the series features a dystopian future version of the Marvel Universe.The series was followed by two sequels, Universe X and Paradise X. The universe of Earth X is designated as Earth-9997.

Paradise X, Vol. 2 (Earth X 5)

In Universe X, Captain Marvel led a charge against Death and killed her. But now that Death is dead, no one will ever die again. They may writhe in pain in hospitals because their bodies have been broken beyond repair, but they will not die. They will call out for an end to their suffering. They will cry out for peace but there will be no answer. Paradise will be denied them. Yes. Death is truly dead. Long live the living. Collects Paradise X #0-5, Paradise X: Xen and Heralds #1-3

Paradise X 1

BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Steve Pugh

Dougie Braithwaite

Bill Reinhold

Steve Yeowell

The original Invaders (Captain America, Bucky, Human Torch, Toro, and the Sub-Mariner) return, courtesy of the award-winning team behind Earth X, Justice, and Project: Superpowers! The greatest super-team of World War II finds itself transported from the battlefields of the Second World War to a future they never imagined! Now, the Invaders must face two teams of Avengers who want desperately to believe these heroes are who they say they are, while Tony Stark confronts his greatest challenge since the Civil War as he must deal with the "return" of Steve Rogers. Confronted by a world they barely recognize, the Invaders will have to show Earth's Mightiest Heroes just what kind of power, courage, and sheer determination it took to defeat the forces of unrelenting evil in the twentieth century. In fact, they may just have to do it again in the twenty-first! Collects Avengers/Invaders #1-4.

Avengers/Invaders 1

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