How music works

"From the former Talking Heads frontman, a supremely intelligent, superbly written dissection of music as an art form and way of life...Byrne touches on all kinds of music from all ages and every part of the world... Highly recommended--anyone at all interested in music will learn a lot from this book."<br>--"Kirkus" (Starred Review) <br>"In this fascinating meditation, Talking Heads frontman Byrne ("Bicycle Diaries") explores how social and practical context, more than individual authorship, shaped music making in history and his own career... his chapters on Heads recording sessions are some of the most insightful accounts of musical creativity yet penned. The result is a surprising challenge to the romantic cliche of musical genius... Byrne's erudite and entertaining prose reveals him to be a true musical intellectual, with serious and revealing things to say about his art."<br>--"Publishers Weekly" (Starred Review) <br>"David Byrne is a brilliantly original, eccentric rock star, and he has written a book to match his protean talents ... What's best about [it] is that Byrne concentrates on his own experience, from a teenage geek splicing layers of guitar feedback on his father's tape recorder (he had a mild self-diagnosed case of Asper-ger's syndrome, he writes) to arty if neo-primitive rock star with the early Talking Heads at CBGB to increasingly sophisticated, globe-wandering art-rocker, happily collaborating with all manner of world musicians and pop-technological innovators."--John Rockwell, "The New York Times Book Review" <br>"Endlessly fascinating, insightful, and intelligent."<br>--June Sawyers, "Booklist" (Starred Review) <br>"[How Music Works is] the book [Byrne] was born to write. I could make a good case for calling this "How Art Works" or even "How Everything Works.""--Cory Doctorow, "Boing Boing" <br>"Byrne explores a whole symphony of argument in this extraordinary book with the precise, technical enthusiasm you'd expect from the pa Ler mais...