How Music Works

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780857862525
Published: September 2013

Number of pages: 376
Width: 164 mm
Height: 214 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: Canongate Books