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How Music Works
David Byrne
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Description for How Music Works
paperback. David Byrne's internationally bestselling magnum opus on the subject of music Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: AV; AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 824.
How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing 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 - Byrne 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.
How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing 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 - Byrne 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862525
SKU
V9780857862525
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97
About David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder 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.
Reviews for How Music Works
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. Brian Eno might as well cancel that book deal now
Mark Ellen
The Observer
As well as being an investigation into the context in which music is made, How Music Works is an accomplished celebration of an ever-evolving art form that can alter how we look at ourselves and the world
Fiona Sturges
Independent
Brilliantly original
New York Times Book Review
As accessible as pop yet able to posit deep and startlingly original thoughts and discoveries in almost every paragraph . . . this book will make you hear music in a different way
Oliver Keens
The Sunday Telegraph
A very involving read - Byrne is good company - he has a gift for a telling analogy that makes complex points easily grasped
Keith Bruce
The Herald
How Music Works is a melange of bookish musings on how music is shaped by the places it is played and the technology used to create and disseminate it
Danny Eccleston
MOJO
An entertaining and erudite book . . . this is a serious, straight-forward account of an art from that also manages to be inspiring
Peter Aspden
Financial Times
Given the vastness of the subject, calling a treatise How Music Works seems intellectually arrogant, but it could also be seen as disarmingly frank, a fresh perspective from a down-to-earth mind. David Byrne's book, although a self-conscious art object (backwards pagination, upholstered cover and so on) contains plenty of plain-spoken, sensible observations: a dichotomy typical of the man
Guardian
Incisive and intriguing
Nick Curtis
The Evening Standard
How Music Works is not just a noticeably handsome book but a beguiling and hugely perceptive one too
Jonathan O’Brien
Sunday Business Post
Mark Ellen
The Observer
As well as being an investigation into the context in which music is made, How Music Works is an accomplished celebration of an ever-evolving art form that can alter how we look at ourselves and the world
Fiona Sturges
Independent
Brilliantly original
New York Times Book Review
As accessible as pop yet able to posit deep and startlingly original thoughts and discoveries in almost every paragraph . . . this book will make you hear music in a different way
Oliver Keens
The Sunday Telegraph
A very involving read - Byrne is good company - he has a gift for a telling analogy that makes complex points easily grasped
Keith Bruce
The Herald
How Music Works is a melange of bookish musings on how music is shaped by the places it is played and the technology used to create and disseminate it
Danny Eccleston
MOJO
An entertaining and erudite book . . . this is a serious, straight-forward account of an art from that also manages to be inspiring
Peter Aspden
Financial Times
Given the vastness of the subject, calling a treatise How Music Works seems intellectually arrogant, but it could also be seen as disarmingly frank, a fresh perspective from a down-to-earth mind. David Byrne's book, although a self-conscious art object (backwards pagination, upholstered cover and so on) contains plenty of plain-spoken, sensible observations: a dichotomy typical of the man
Guardian
Incisive and intriguing
Nick Curtis
The Evening Standard
How Music Works is not just a noticeably handsome book but a beguiling and hugely perceptive one too
Jonathan O’Brien
Sunday Business Post