Book description
How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he
has spent a lifetime thinking about. Equal parts historian and
anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws 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 - to show that music-making is not
just the act of a solitary composer in a studio, but rather a logical,
populist, and beautiful result of cultural circumstance. A brainy,
irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about
music's liberating, life-affirming power. Known as the force behind
Talking Heads and later as the creator of the highly-regarded record
label Luaka Bop, Scottish-born David Byrne also works as a photographer,
film director, author and solo artist; he has published and exhibited
visual art for more than a decade. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and
Golden Globe awards and been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
