How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant
celebration of a subject he's spent a lifetime thinking about. He
explains how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and how
the advent of recording technology forever changed our relationship to
playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and
anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for
patterns—and tells us how they have affected his own work over the years
with Talking Heads and his many collaborators. Touching on the joy,
physics, and the business of making music, he also shows how it is
inextricably linked to its cultural and physical context. His range is
panoptic, taking us from La Scala to African villages, from his teenage
reel-to-reel recordings to his latest work in a home music studio. How Music Works is a brainy, irresistible adventure and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.
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