Name: How Music Works
ISBN: 9780804188937

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Why This Clicks

Inside the Music

A smart, sideways look at how music gets made, sold, and understood.

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layered thinking about music and business
insider-y but readable framing

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cross-genre context
practical insight with personality

Book Details

Authors: David Byrne
Publisher: Crown
Published: May 2, 2017
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Music History · Media & Communications
Reading lane: Music History

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Publisher Categories

Ethnomusicology
Music History
Music Resources

About This Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”— The Boston Globe Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”— The Boston Globe Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.