This book is also available in German. How Music Works is David Byrne’s bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.moreDrawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators – along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists – Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power.