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Author Byrne, David, 1952-

Title How music works / David Byrne.

Imprint San Francisco [Calif.] : McSweeney's, ©2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  780.9 BYRNE    Missing
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  780.9 BYRNE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.9 B996    DUE 04-10-24
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  780.9 BYRNE    DUE 03-12-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  780.9 BYRNE    DUE 04-24-24
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  780.9 BYR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  780.9 BYRNE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.9 BYRNE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  780.9 BYR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  781.1 B99    Check Shelf

Description 345 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-344).
Contents Creation in reverse -- My life in performance -- Technology shapes music: analog -- Technology shapes music: digital -- In the recording studio -- Collaborations -- Business and finances -- How to make a scene -- Amateurs! -- Harmonia Mundi.
Summary 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. This work is an account of a life in music and an explanation of how and why music works from one of the world's most accomplished performers. With his albums for Talking Heads, his work with Brian Eno or his solo output, the author has been consistently at the forefront of musical, and artistic, innovation. In this book he explores why the past matters and what the future might bring. From personal accounts of devising and performing his most famous work, to an exploration of the possibilities of new technologies, he discovers that artistic creation is less about an internal creative spark than we thought and more about external factors such as history, architecture and technology. "The universe of music follows broad and basic evolutionary patterns-as does birdsong, to take one example. It seems the will only triumphs if the context is amenable, just as in Darwinian adaptation. What we hear is determined by what we want to hear, by what can be heard, and by the circumstances that allow it to come into being."
Subject Byrne, David, 1952-
Music -- Social aspects.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musicians -- Scotland -- Biography.
Byrne, David, 1952- (OCoLC)fst00145073
Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. (OCoLC)fst01030408
Music -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01030418
Music -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01030444
Musicians. (OCoLC)fst01030837
Scotland. (OCoLC)fst01206715
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 9781936365531 (hardcover)
1936365537 (hardcover)
9780857862532 (pbk.)
0857862537 (pbk.)
9781938073533 (pbk.)
1938073533 (pbk.)
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