Talking Heads Founder David Byrne Releases New Book 'How Music Works'
|
|
|
|
Thursday, 20 September 2012 |
Written by Jon Stickler
|
|
'How Music Works' is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.
 Acting as historian, anthropologist and social scientist, he searches for patterns—and shows how those patterns have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators, from Brian Eno to Caetano Veloso. Byrne sees music as part of a larger, almost Darwinian pattern of adaptations and responses to its cultural and physical context. His range is panoptic, taking us from Wagnerian opera houses to African villages, from his earliest high school reel-to-reel recordings to his latest work in a home music studio (and all the big studios in between).
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.
David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
We don't run any advertising! Our editorial content is solely funded by lovely people like yourself using Stereoboard's listings when buying tickets for live events. To keep supporting us, next time you're looking for concert, festival, sport or theatre tickets, please search for "Stereoboard". It costs you nothing, you may find a better price than the usual outlets, and save yourself from waiting in an endless queue on Friday mornings as we list ALL available sellers!
Let Us Know Your Thoughts
Related News |
Fri 06 Feb 2026
David Byrne Tickets For New Summer UK And Ireland Shows On Sale 10am Today
Mon 02 Feb 2026
David Byrne Adds Summer UK And Ireland Shows To Who Is The Sky? World Tour
Mon 08 Dec 2025
David Byrne Adds Further North American And European Dates To Who Is The Sky? Tour
Tue 18 Nov 2025
David Byrne Releases New Song T Shirt Co-Written By Brian Eno
Tue 09 Sep 2025
David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Album Review)
