How Music Works
- ISBN-10
- 0857862529
- ISBN-13
- 9780857862525
- Series
- How Music Works
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Books
- Author
- David Byrne
Description
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.
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