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How Music Works

by David Byrne

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Used Like New(1 Copy): Signed by Author. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 350 pages. As New. The author's book-length account on subject. One of the best books on music written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a relatively small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. As one has come to expect from McSweeney's, the production values are impeccable: Regular-sized volume format. Pristine-white leatherette boards with black titles embossed on the cover and spine. Text by David Byrne, which is brilliantly interspersed with vintage and contemporary photographs, folk, tribal, and modern art, and numerous other illustrations. Printed on pristine-white archival stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents David Byrne's celebration of music, possibly the best of its kind: Erudite knowledge fused with his passionate, lifelong commitment as highly admired "Renaissance Man" composer, lyricist, writer, arranger, performer, producer, leader of the legendary cutting-edge band Talking Heads, and perhaps most significantly, devoted listener of every kind of music, not just Pop or Rock. As such, it is surely the most absorbing, accessible, and rewarding book since Aaron Copland's austerely elegant classic, "What To Listen For In Music", and in many ways, is a counter-narr ative to Copland, with Byrne emphasizing the wider cultural context in which music is created and transmitted versus Copland's focus, just as valid, on music's transcendent power and universal appeal. "A remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place and explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. He searches for patterns, and shows how those patterns have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators, from Brian Eno to Caetano Veloso. Byrne sees music as part of a larger, almost Darwinian pattern of adaptations and responses to its cultural and physical context. A brainy, irresistible adventure and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power" (Publisher's blurb). "The resulting essays on topics from rockers' clothes to the role of the turntable, concert stages, and recording studios will give you an entirely new perspective on the complex journey a song takes from conception to your iPod" (Neal Thompson). An absolute "must-have" title for David Byrne and music collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by David Byrne. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcemen t of Byrne's NYC appearance. This title will become a contemporary classic. This is one of very few signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Like all of David Byrne's other books, its value will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest living American artist/composer/writer/performers. A fine copy. ISBN 1936365537.

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Media: Hardcover Book, 352 pages

Publication Date: Sep. 11th, 2012

Publisher: McSweeney's Books

ISBN-10: 1936365537

ISBN-13: 9781936365531

Series: Not Applicable

Language: English

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