How Music Works

Author: David Byrne

Music

Published on 19 September 2013 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 376 pages
166 x 213 x 30mm | 818g

How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.