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How Music Works is a non-fiction book by David Byrne, a musician, composer, and writer best known for his work with the group Talking Heads. He discusses the form and influence of music in a non-linear narrative fashion, using a variety of experiences from his career to create something part autobiography and part music theory.
- David Byrne
- 2012
Sep 12, 2012 · 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.
- 2012
- David Byrne
May 2, 2017 · NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.
- Three Rivers Press
- $21
Sep 2, 2014 · A book by the former Talking Heads singer and songwriter that explores how music is shaped by its time and place, and how recording technology changed music. It covers various genres, history, art, science, and business of music, with personal anecdotes and examples.
- (25.1K)
- Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he's spent a lifetime thinking about. He explains how… FIND REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL!
About How Music Works. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.
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May 2, 2017 · NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical,...
