How Music Works / David Byrne (New Edition)

New edition of David Byrne's bestselling magnum opus!

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.

Praise for How Music Works

"Brilliantly original"-The New York Times Book Review

"Fascinating" -Booklist

"Extraordinary" -The Guardian

"Dazzling"-The Onion A.V. Club

"Essential"-The San Francisco Chronicle

"Absorbing"-The Independent

Format:  Paperback

Publisher:  Crown Publishing Group