David Byrne's How Music Works Book

David Byrne's  new "How Music Works" may be his most ambitious book, but you'd probably not call him a writer. He's more of a thinker here or, as the Los Angeles Times once put it, a public intellectual.

In his preface, Byrne suggests that readers can skip around rather than read the chapters in order. He's never been a linear kind of a guy, and this is not a linear kind of book. "How Music Works" is a collection of essays, each of which could stand alone, about how music is conceived, presented and received. It deals with form, function, creativity, technology, performing, architecture, business. "How Music Works" would be an excellent college textbook for a 200-level course in a music department. MORE HERE

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