David Byrne (2) (1952–)
Autor(a) de How Music Works
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About the Author
David Byrne (born May 14, 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and artist perhaps best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo projects on record, and worked in a mostrar mais variety of media, including film, photography, opera, and Internet-based projects. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards for his achievements. In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring "The Catherine Wheel," a ballet prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics. Productions of "The Catherine Wheel" appeared on Broadway that same year. Byrne is also known for his activism in support of increased cycling, and for having used a bike as his main means of transport for most of his life, especially cycling around New York, where he has designed innovative bicycle parking racks. He has written widely on cycling, including a 2009 book, Bicycle Diaries. In August 2009, he auctioned his Montague folding bike in order to raise money for the London Cycling Campaign. His title Bicycle Diaries made the New York Times Best Seller List for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Obras por David Byrne
David Byrne: Live at Union Chapel 7 exemplares
Balanescu Quartet Plays Byrne, Moran, Lurie, Torke 4 exemplares
The Creative Growth Book: From the Outside to the Inside: Artists with Disabilities Today (2016) 3 exemplares
Ile Aiye (The House of Life) - A Film by David Byrne 2 exemplares
Here Lies Love: Original Cast Recording — Compositor — 2 exemplares
Brazil Classics 1 2 exemplares
X-Press 2 - Lazy feat. David Byrne - Skint Records — Vocalist — 1 exemplar
Taliking Heads Anthology 1 exemplar
Yoshitomo Nara at Pace 1 exemplar
Sounds from true stories 1 exemplar
What is it? [Pinspot no. 13] 1 exemplar
Strange Overtones 1 exemplar
Ilé aiyé The house of life 1 exemplar
David Byrne Asks You: What is it? 1 exemplar
Forestry 1 exemplar
the 1975 CBS Demo session 1 exemplar
Brazil Classics 2 1 exemplar
Associated Works
New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground 1978-88: Photographs by Paula Court (2000) 31 exemplares
Red Hot Rio 2 by Red Hot Rio 2 (2011-08-08) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-05-14
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- Scotland, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Dumbarton, Scotland, UK
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Dumbarton, Scotland, UK (birth) - Educação
- Rhode Island School of Design
Maryland Institute College of Art - Ocupações
- musician
composer
artist
actor
singer - Organizações
- Talking Heads
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, 2002
Membros
Discussions
David Byrne Lending Library em Legacy Libraries (Dezembro 2015)
Críticas
How Music Works por David Byrne
Idiosyncratic take on how he feels about music, his experiences in the music industry, his ideas about what makes music special etc. It talks a good amount about his Talking Heads/solo experience but it's not like a musical autobiography type thing, although you probably won't be too interested if you don't care much about his musical career. It also doesn't talk about music theory (or only tiny bits) and almost all of it is pretty accessible if you don't know much about music, although it's also not gonna teach you much theoretical stuff. In general I enjoyed it and it gave me stuff to think about although every so often he gives out a fact I'm not sure is accurate and there's a few big generalisations about "African music" and stuff.… (mais)
Maybe not perceived as ground-breaking as the previous Bicycle Diaries (maybe because Byrne here actually talks about his job?), is nonetheless (and for the same reasons) a more focused work. The first part - and more generally the autobiographic stuff - works generally better than the second but all in all is a good introduction (and also a starting point, thanks to its small but significant bibliography) to various aspects of our relationship with music.
A nice companion to the film, with an introduction by David Byrne on the idea and the process and then basically the screenplay enriched not only by stage and behind the scenes pictures but also by real newspapers articles that inspired the movie, some various materials and sketches, and so on. It's a difficult to find book, but worth a search for all those who appreciated Byrne's approach.
Byrne si fa leggere (soprattutto in vacanza) ma certa critica estremamente entusiasta pare volerci illudere che sia il libro di un intellettuale giramondo che dispensa perle di saggezza. Ma Byrne così intellettuale non è (il che non è mai un difetto e soprattutto non lo è se si è stati leader dei grandissimi Talking Heads) e spesso alle sue considerazioni di buon senso ti verrebbe da annuire consigliandogli qualche buona lettura. Al di là di questo, la pecca maggiore del libro è che in fondo vi si parla poco di bicicletta (pur salvandosi in corner nell'ultima parte).… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 57
- Also by
- 14
- Membros
- 3,179
- Popularidade
- #8,038
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 70
- ISBN
- 169
- Línguas
- 9
- Acerca
- 1
- Pedras de toque
- 48
