How Music Works

How Music Works

by David Byrne

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 powerful practices.

2012 363 pages Crown 4 curators
PhilosophyHistoryPsychologyBiography & MemoirMusic

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