How Music Works
About this book
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.
Subjects
- biography
- history and criticism
- music
- music and technology
- music, history and criticism
- music, history and criticism, 20th century
- musicians
- musicians, biography
- music, philosophy and aesthetics
- music, psychological aspects
- music, social aspects
- music trade
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2013-10-06
- philosophy and aesthetics
- production and direction
- psychological aspects
- social aspects
- sound recordings