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Escucha Esto (2012)

by Alex Ross(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Seix Barral

review 1: El libro sobre música más complejo y académico que he leído en mi vida. Parte del género clásico, con las grandes piezas de orquesta y sinfonías, en una serie concienzuda de ensayos sobre métrica, progresión y partituras para de ahí ir saltando a la música popular y los detonantes de géneros más populares y actuales. Algunas reflexiones, como los paralelismos entre la llegada del MP3 y la invención del fonógrafo son brillantes, una quinta parte del libro la dedica a hablar de Bob Dylan y la relevancia de su legado, la parte donde justifica antropológicamente el nacimiento del Hip-Hop y el R&B es tan emotiva que lloré cuando la leí.El libro es casi imposible de conseguir, cuesta un ojo de la cara. Pero no tiene ni un sólo renglón de desperdicio si aman l... morea música.
review 2: This book was very high and low for me, although part of that had to do with the fact that I've never studied music academically nor do I have any knowledge of music history prior to the 1960s. Listen To This is a collection of Alex Ross's pieces for The New Yorker, all of which are well written but many were out of my reach. I enjoyed the essays about Bjork, Bob Dylan, music education and a few others because I was able to relate to them, but the very technical analyses of classic compositions that I've never even heard (I still don't know what the Eroica is) were completely lost on me. So perhaps my review is unfair in that I approached the book without an adequate amount of knowledge to appreciate it, but it made for some very boring reading at times.One other comment is that many people and compositions were referenced in various essays so sometimes it felt as if it were one larger piece rather than a collection of independent essays, which I didn't like. It felt like you were missing something to read one without the others yet there wasn't a really flow from essay to essay. less

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