How Music Works

1 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.

Good for readers who want: music and a true life story.

• Music, philosophy and aesthetics
• Music
• Musicians, biography
• Philosophy and aesthetics
• Biography
• Sound recordings
• Music trade
• Production and direction