It tells of maverick personalities who have resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators. The Rest Is Noise takes the reader inside the labyrinth of modern sound. Alex Ross, the brilliant music critic for The New Yorker, shines a bright light on this secret world, and shows how it has pervaded every corner of twentieth century life. Minimalist music has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. At the same time, the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. The scandal over modern music has not died down.
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