How Music Works - Softcover

The book [Byrne] was born to write. I could make a good case for calling this "How Art Works" or even "How Everything Works." Cory Doctorow, "BoingBoing" David Byrne is a brilliantly original, eccentric rock star, and he has written a book to match his protean talents. John Rockwell, "The New York Times Book Review" Fascinating . . . 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. Mark Ellen, "The Guardian" "No matter how dedicated or casual a music fan you are, David Byrne's insights into the inner world of music and creativity are likely to make you listen to music in a different way." "The Current" " "The book [Byrne] was born to write. I could make a good case for calling this "How Art Works" or even "How Everything Works."" --Cory Doctorow, "BoingBoing" "David Byrne is a brilliantly original, eccentric rock star, and he has written a book to match his protean talents." --John Rockwell, "The New York Times Book Review" "Fascinating . . . 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." --Mark Ellen, "The Guardian" "No matter how dedicated or casual a music fan you are, David Byrne's insights into the inner world of music and creativity are likely to make you listen to music in a different way." --"The Current"

The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns of adaptations and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history and culminated in the 20th century's transformative practices.