How music works

345 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2012 by McSweeneys.

ISBN:
978-1-936365-53-1
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OCLC Number:
746834427

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Musicians
  • Music
  • Philosophy and aesthetics
  • Psychological aspects
  • Social aspects
  • History and criticism
  • Biography

Places

  • Scotland