How Music Works
Crown · Print & ebook · May 2, 2017
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- Who it’s for
- A smart, sideways look at how music gets made, sold, and understood.
- Themes
- music history, cultural influence, technology in music
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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.
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“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.
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A smart, sideways look at how music gets made, sold, and understood.
Come here for
- layered thinking about music and business
- insider-y but readable framing
Expect
- cross-genre context
- practical insight with personality
Where it sits
| Music History | 56% |
|---|---|
| Music & Society | 40% |
| Music Writing | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ethnomusicology
- Music History
- Music Resources
- Authors
- David Byrne
- Publisher
- Crown
- Published
- May 2, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- music history · cultural influence · technology in music
- Reading lane
- Ethnomusicology