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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 .
- David Byrne
- 2012
How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he's spent a lifetime thinking about. Incisive, engaging, and eclectic, it was first published by McSweeney’s in 2012 to rave reviews and became a New York Times bestseller.
David Byrne co-founded the world-music record label Luaka Bop with Yale Evelev in 1990. It was originally created to release Latin American compilations, but it has grown to include music from Cuba, Africa, the Far East and beyond, releasing the work of artists such as Cornershop , Os Mutantes , Los De Abajo , Jim White , Zap Mama , Tom Zé ...
Mar 29, 2018 · David Byrne on the Music That Made Him. At 65, the art-rock legend talks about the songs and albums of his life, five years at a time. By Stacey Anderson.
Sep 12, 2024 · David Byrne, Scottish-born musician and interdisciplinary artist who was best known as the front man of the influential American art-rock group Talking Heads. He went on to gain respect for an eclectic solo career that encompassed music, film, theater, and art.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 2, 2017 · Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic...
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Sep 13, 2012 · Great times and tall deeds for David Byrne this week: First his fantastic collaborative album with St. Vincent (which made a cameo on Literary Jukebox), and now the release of How Music Works (public library) — a fascinating record of his lifetime of curiosity about and active immersion in music.
