How Music Works gift

How Music Works giftAuthor: David Byrne Publisher: McSweeney's How Music Works is David Byrnes remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and

In these poems

• Includes all the lyrics of the original song "Three Little Birds" by beloved Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley

But when she rejects him at a classmate's party

Tropic of Cancer

he embraces the challenges of being a poet

with newly restored monaural sound from the original quarter-inch magnetic masters

and the decades-long argument over which is which

and I was a little devil in America

same tuning

PLUS: A new essay by film critic Tony Rayns

When the Light of the World Was Subdued

comprehensive volume of Dylan’s lyrics