Author: Byrne, David
Brand: Canongate
Edition: Main
Number Of Pages: 376
Release Date: 19-09-2013
Details: Product Description 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. Review "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 "As well as being an investigation into the context in which music is made, How Music Works is an accomplished celebration of an ever-evolving art form that can alter how we look at ourselves and the world" -- Fiona Sturges ― Independent "Brilliantly original" ― New York Times Book Review "As accessible as pop yet able to posit deep and startlingly original thoughts and discoveries in almost every paragraph . . . this book will make you hear music in a different way" -- Oliver Keens ― The Sunday Telegraph "A very involving read - Byrne is good company - he has a gift for a telling analogy that makes complex points easily grasped" -- Keith Bruce ― The Herald " How Music Works is a melange of bookish musings on how music is shaped by the places it is played and the technology used to create and disseminate it" -- Danny Eccleston ― MOJO "An entertaining and erudite book . . . this is a serious, straight-forward account of an art from that also manages to be inspiring" -- Peter Aspden ― Financial Times Published On: 2012-09-29 "Given the vastness of the subject, calling a treatise How Music Works seems intellectually arrogant, but it could also be seen as disarmingly frank, a fresh perspective from a down-to-earth mind. David Byrne's book, although a self-conscious art object (backwards pagination, upholstered cover and so on) contains plenty of plain-spoken, sensible observations: a dichotomy typical of the man" ― Guardian "Incisive and intriguing" -- Nick Curtis ― The Evening Standard " How Music Works is not just a noticeably handsome book but a beguiling and hugely perceptive one too" -- Jonathan O’Brien ― Sunday Business Post Published On: 2012-09-23 Book Description David Byrne's internationally bestselling magnum opus on the subject of music From the Inside Flap 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. From the Back Cover 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. About the Author 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 How Music Works, Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.davidbyrne.com
EAN: 8601404240133
Languages: English
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: New