How Music Works / David Byrne (New Edition)
How Music Works / David Byrne (New Edition)
New edition of David Byrne's bestselling magnum opus!
How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.
Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - to show that music-making is not just the act of a solitary composer in a studio, but rather a logical, populist, and beautiful result of cultural circumstance.
A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.
Praise for How Music Works
"Brilliantly original"-The New York Times Book Review
"Fascinating" -Booklist
"Extraordinary" -The Guardian
"Dazzling"-The Onion A.V. Club
"Essential"-The San Francisco Chronicle
"Absorbing"-The Independent
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group