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About David Byrne
See more books from this AuthorByrne touches on all kinds of music from all ages and every part of the world...anyone at all interested in music will learn a lot from this book.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from Kirkus...doesn’t quite cohere. It is full of sharp, glancing insights, but Byrne never brings his approach to music into focus.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from NY TimesGive Mr. Byrne credit for consistently going his own way. But “How Music Works” is a road to nowhere.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from NY TimesHow Music Works is wonderfully wide-ranging, covering the prehistoric origins of music, Madonna's contracts... and music's physiological and neurological effects
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from GuardianIt was wildly ambitious to try and turn this galaxy of theory into a readable work of scholarship but Byrne has done it, and done it with style.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from GuardianByrne’s erudite and entertaining prose reveals him to be a true musical intellectual, with serious and revealing things to say about his art.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyMr. Byrne is exploring all the reasons music is beautiful and how other people, especially musicians, can appreciate and sustain that beauty for themselves.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from WSJ online...he's a bright and curious observer just thinking out loud, offering a mixture of thoughtful insight and the obvious.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from Star TribuneIf you’re a surviving rock star, you may find yourself asked to write a book...they’ve all been interesting and worth reading. But none of them is as good as David Byrne’s book
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from Globe and MailTo How Music Works’ credit, that same joy—of singing and playing, of thinking and dancing, of listening and wondering—renders almost every page a song.
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from AV ClubEvery form of music, from birdsong onwards, is considered and elegantly related to form, debunking romantic conceits about music and presenting a far more beautiful rationality.
Read Full Review of How Music Works...a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual, sometimes on the same page.
Read Full Review of How Music WorksByrne delivers an essential guide to performance and recording, honest and up-to-date, and filled with both practical advice and insightful commentary.
Read Full Review of How Music Works...welcoming, informal, digressive...one has the pleasant sense that Byrne is speaking directly to the reader, sharing a few confidences he has picked up over the years.
Read Full Review of How Music WorksThe book contains no details about the famously rancorous dissolution of Talking Heads...
Read Full Review of How Music Works | See more reviews from NY TimesAltogether it’s as quirky and odd as you’d expect from Byrne but less consistently entertaining than you’d hope.
Read Full Review of How Music Works...when not focused on experiences in the studio, his writing loses its firsthand intensity, its narrative coherence, and a good deal of its power to interest.
Read Full Review of How Music Works"How Music Works" is a journey of sorts, with a knowledgeable guide chock-full of personal insights and charm.
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