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.
MEDIA REVIEWS
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9780857862525Number of pages: 376Weight: 820 gDimensions: 214 x 164 x 28 mmEdition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'It was wildly ambitious to try and turn this galaxy of theory into a readable work of scholarship but Byrne has done it,and done it with style. Brian Eno might as well cancel that book deal now'- Mark Ellen,The Observer
'As well as being an investigation into the context in which music is made,How Music Works is an accomplished celebration of an ever-evolving art form that can alter how we look at ourselves and the world'- Fiona Sturges,The Independent
'Brilliantly original'- The New York Times Book Review
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