Listening to the (Western) Twentieth Century

The Economist ran a review (http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10015908&fsrc=nwlptwfree) on this book called "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century". The author is Alex Ross who has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996.

I read the economist review. And I read the summary at the author's blog (http://www.therestisnoise.com/).The summary goes like "...The narrative goes 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...".

Get the picture? See the problem?

For those who didn't, Isn't there also something called Indian classical music (yes, they have actually played a bit of that in the twentieth-century too)? There's probably Chinese classical music and Japanese etc but I don't know about that. All I'm saying is, Mr Alex, please be correct and call you book "Listening to the Western Twentieth Century".