How Music Works

Resumen del libro

Updated with new insights from the incomparable David Byrne, this is an illuminative look inside the formative elements of music from the Talking Heads musician, filmmaker, and author

Updated with new material, How Music Works is a Three Rivers Press reprint of the initial 2012 McSweeneys publication and David Byrnes buoyant celebration of a subject hes spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators, Byrne reveals how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as from individual creativity. Spanning the globe, Byrnes informative take is a rare blend of enlightening and edifying.

Told with a delightfully informed voice and a wise perspective, How Music Works is both a pop-culture touchstone and a highly entertaining look at a deeply human, universally uniting art form. It is Byrnes magnum opus and an impassioned argument about musics liberating, life-affirming power spanning cultures, countries, and the globe.

Biografía del autor

(Dumbarton, Escocia, 1952) es músico, fundador del mítico grupo Talking Heads, así como diseñador, fotógrafo, artista visual, activista, editor y escritor. Entre sus libros más conocidos destacan Diarios de bicicleta (2009) y Cómo funciona la música (2012).