David Byrne is undoubtedly one of the most talented and innovative musicians of recent times. In addition to being the leader and engine of the legendary Talking Heads, he has recorded music together with people like Brian Eno, Celia Cruz, Fatboy Slim, Arcade Fire and several others. How music works, his most recent book, leads his thousands of fans behind the scenes to get a first-hand idea of ​​how David Byrne's creative musical mind works. The author explains how music is conditioned by the place and time in which it is created, and how the technology to record it changed forever our relationship with the interpretation and listening of music. Alternating in his role of historian, anthropologist and social music scientist, with the story of the journey that took him from being an introverted art student to creating one of the most iconic groups of recent times, Byrne dissects that strange immaterial tremor called music, with a prose as amena as intelligent, which will be widely enjoyed by those readers interested in knowing their intimate relationship with the activity to which he has devoted much of his life.