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How Music Works by David Byrne

Review: How Music Works David Byrne 2017 Three Rivers Press The back cover lists several adjectives---brilliantly original, fascinating, extraordinary, dazzling, essential, and absorbing---to describe this book.    I think that pretty well covers most of the endorsements and reviews that are out there already.     I liked the cover and that’s pretty much why I picked the book, that and I am interested in music.   The author’s name rang no bells for me.   As I read through the endorsements I discovered that I probably had seen or heard some of his music.   My kids both knew not only his name, but some of his music.   I must’ve been listening to another sort of music at the time.   However, all that has been corrected now. I read the book as presented, but as the author mentioned early on, it could be read in any order.   Each chapter is a unique entity of its own.   There’s some of Byrne’s persona...