The Rest is Noise shirt 'Visions Of Johanna' and 'Highway

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From ancient instruments made from shells to instruments that make music with lightning

and visual artists—offer their advice throughout the book

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The Rest is Noise shirt 'Visions Of Johanna' and 'HighwayAuthor: Alex Ross Publisher: Picador In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections