Description: How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for patternsand shows how those patterns have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators, from Brian Eno to Caetano Veloso. Byrne sees music as part of a larger, almost Darwinian pattern of adaptations and responses to its cultural and physical context. His range is panoptic, taking us from Wagnerian opera houses to African villages, from his earliest high school reel-to-reel recordings to his latest work in a home music studio (and all the big studios in between).Touching on the joy, the physics, and even the business of making music, How Music Works is a brainy, irresistible adventure and an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power. 1st, Signed (G3)
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Subject Area: Music
Book Title: How Music Works
Publisher: Mcsweeney's Publishing
Item Length: 9 in
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Item Height: 1.7 in
Author: David Byrne
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Topic: Music, History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Composers & Musicians
Item Weight: 38.4 Oz
Item Width: 6.9 in
Number of Pages: 352 Pages