David Byrne: How Music Works (2012)
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“How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.
Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws 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 – to show that music-making is not just the act of a solitary composer in a studio, but rather a logical, populist, and beautiful result of cultural circumstance.
A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power.”
Publisher Canongate Books, 2012
ISBN 0857862510, 9780857862518
348 pages
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