Thirdly, nearly half of these churches identify themselves as multi-campus churches. Second, the albums all reflect a great concern for music written by the church, rather than covers of mass production worship music, which is the typical fare in the majority of Protestant worship services. Florida's creative class, a growing group of professions that emphasize presentation and cultural production. The geographical trends show a strong relationship to areas marked as centers of R. First is that these changes are happening the fastest in certain denominations and geographical areas. A survey of albums produced by American Protestant church worship bands shows three important shifts in practice. Protestant contemporary worship music, once the domain of publishing houses, is now increasingly being produced by individual churches. These changes in media technology have also lead to changes in religious ritual practice. No longer does an artist need to be picked up by a record label to get market share, now they can reach their audiences with the click of a button. Which is maybe the point of this whole book.' That's How Music Works in a nutshell: David Byrne manages to balance the substantial in a manner so lightweight it almost floats away.With the rise of digital media, new technologies to record and disseminate music have spurred a flurry of changes in the music industry. In some instances, it makes for memorable witticisms about how music does or doesn't work: 'We don't make music – it makes us. That's weighty stuff bogging down Byrne's rather informal prose.

Byrne gets wonky when talking about business and 'How to Make a Scene,' while final chapter 'Harmonia Mundi' delves into where music came from and its effect on culture, from the Greeks to Marshall McLuhan. The rest is an opinionated history and sociological treatise on the forms music takes and the industry surrounding it.

That's unfortunate because descriptions/illustrations of CBGB, plus the creative process behind Heads songs and innovative tour staging – not to mention his work with Brian Eno – are the most engaging parts of what he has to say.

While not his 'aging rocker's bio,' David Byrne's third book, How Music Works, might be as close to an autobiography as we're likely to get from the Scottish-born co-founder of Talking Heads.

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