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How Music Works by David Byrne (2012, Hardcover)
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781936365531
- Book Title
- How Music Works
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Mcsweeney's Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Composers & Musicians
- Item Width
- 6.9 in
- Item Weight
- 38.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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"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."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcsweeney's Publishing
ISBN-10
1936365537
ISBN-13
9781936365531
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109420741
Product Key Features
Book Title
How Music Works
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Composers & Musicians
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Item Weight
38.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3800
Reviews
"From the former Talking Heads frontman, a supremely intelligent, superbly written dissection of music as an art form and way of life...Byrne touches on all kinds of music from all ages and every part of the world... Highly recommended--anyone at all interested in music will learn a lot from this book." -- Kirkus (Starred Review) "In this fascinating meditation, Talking Heads frontman Byrne ( Bicycle Diaries ) explores how social and practical context, more than individual authorship, shaped music making in history and his own career... his chapters on Heads recording sessions are some of the most insightful accounts of musical creativity yet penned. The result is a surprising challenge to the romantic cliché of musical genius... Byrne's erudite and entertaining prose reveals him to be a true musical intellectual, with serious and revealing things to say about his art." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
780.1
Dewey Edition
23
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