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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
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99-98
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
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