Starting out in the ’60s with youthful experiments making musique concrète, he went through a singer-songwriter phase, progressed rapidly through New York punk to MTV stardom in Talking Heads, and moved on to a busy post-pop afterlife collaborating with everyone from avant-garde choreographers to Latin American big bands to British DJ-producers. He’s an insider with over forty years’ experience as a practitioner under his guitar strap he’s also an art-school-educated intellectual capable of taking a detached, aerial view. But you’ll also learn about how music affects us emotionally and what, ultimately, it is for.Ī tall order, you might think, but if anybody is qualified to take a stab, it’s David Byrne. Between these covers, it implies, you will find everything you’ll ever need to know about the dynamics of collaboration, the craft of stage performance and studio recording, the nitty-gritty of the music industry. The title promises the definitive lowdown.
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