How Music Works
- 24 Nov 2022
- 9781805300809
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- 19 Sep 2013
- 9780857862525
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- 376 pp
- 164×214mm
- 13 Sep 2012
- 9780857862518
- £15.19
- 376 pp
In a few words
David Byrne’s internationally bestselling magnum opus on the subject of music
In a few words
David Byrne’s internationally bestselling magnum opus on the subject of music
In a few words
David Byrne’s internationally bestselling magnum opus on the subject of music
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 ObserverAs 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
IndependentIt 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 ObserverAs 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
IndependentIt 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 ObserverA very involving read - Byrne is good company - he has a gift for a telling analogy that makes complex points easily grasped
Keith Bruce
The HeraldMore about
the book
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.
More about
the book
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.
More about
the book
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.
Brilliantly original
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 TelegraphA very involving read - Byrne is good company - he has a gift for a telling analogy that makes complex points easily grasped
Keith Bruce
The HeraldHow 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
MOJOBrilliantly original
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 TelegraphA very involving read - Byrne is good company - he has a gift for a telling analogy that makes complex points easily grasped
Keith Bruce
The HeraldHow 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
MOJOIncisive and intriguing
Nick Curtis
The Evening StandardAs 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
IndependentHow 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
MOJODavid Byrne deserves great praise for How Music Works. It is as accessible as pop yet able to posit deep and startlingly original thoughts and discoveries in almost every paragraph. Not unlike getting your ears syringed, this book will make you hear music in a different way. . . Every form of music, from birdsong onwards, is considered and elegantly related to form, debunking romantic conceits about music and presenting a far more beautiful rationality. In the process, Byrne shows not just how music works, but how music publishing should work too
Oliver Keens
The Sunday Telegraph
David Byrne
View profileDavid 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 Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.
David Byrne
View profileDavid 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 Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.
David Byrne
View profileDavid Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.
