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How Music Works is a non-fiction book by David Byrne, a musician, composer, and writer best known for his work with the group Talking Heads. He discusses the form and influence of music in a non-linear narrative fashion, using a variety of experiences from his career to create something part autobiography and part music theory .
Sep 12, 2012 · Touching on the joy, the physics, and even the business of making music, How Music Works is a brainy, irresistible adventure and an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power.
Sep 2, 2014 · A book by the former Talking Heads singer and songwriter that explores how music is shaped by its time and place, and how recording technology changed music. It covers various genres, history, art, science, and business of music, with personal anecdotes and examples.
About How Music Works. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.
Learn how music is created, performed, recorded, sold, and distributed from the perspective of a musician and artist. Explore the fundamentals, innovations, and influences of musical art form in this updated edition with a new chapter on digital curation.
May 2, 2017 · “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”—The Boston Globe
Sep 13, 2012 · A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.
