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How Music Works
Current price:
$22.00
Publication Date: September 17th, 2013
Publisher:
McSweeney's
ISBN:
9781938073533
Pages:
374
Description
"How Music Works" is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaboratorsalong with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music existsByrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.
Praise for How Music Works
The book [Byrne] was born to write. I could make a good case for calling this How Art Works or even How Everything Works.”
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
David Byrne is a brilliantly original, eccentric rock star, and he has written a book to match his protean talents.”
John Rockwell, The New York Times Book Review
Fascinating . . . It was wildly ambitious to try and turn this galaxy of theory into a readable work of scholarship, but Byrne has done it, and done it with style.”
Mark Ellen, The Guardian
"No matter how dedicated or casual a music fan you are, David Byrne's insights into the inner world of music and creativity are likely to make you listen to music in a different way." The Current
