How Music Works

Byrne, David

ISBN 10: 1936365537 / ISBN 13: 9781936365531

Published by McSweeney's Publishing, 2012

About this Item

As new, 2012 1st in plush leather binding. Will be well packaged to preserve the unusually nice condition (this book tends to wear very easily) Signed on title page. has orig price sticker still on back cover. from a reviewer's estate. sadly, no review slip present. Priced in line with condition.

Seller Inventory # 000479

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Music Works
• Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936365537
• ISBN 13: 9781936365531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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 patterns—and 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.

About the Author

David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.