2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross
The scandal over modern music has not died down. 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….
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
Ben Ratliff
Once Upon a Quniceanera
Julia Alvarez
The Terror Dream
Susan Faludi
