David Byrne Bücher

Mit ›Wie Musik wirkt‹ ermöglicht Musiker David Byrne den Lesern einen außergewöhnlichen Blick in die Welt der Musik – die Mischung aus Musikgeschichte, Autobiographie und Handbuch ist so vielseitig wie der Talking Heads-Gründer selbst David Byrne ist ein Vordenker des Pop und ihm immer einen Schritt voraus. Nach all den Jahren im Musikbusiness weiß er genau, wie unterschiedlich Musik in Kellerkneipen und Aufnahmestudios, auf afrikanischen Dorfplätzen und in den Opernhäusern dieser Welt klingt. Aber wie genau funktioniert und wirkt Musik – akustisch, wirtschaftlich, sozial und technologisch? Diesen Fragen widmet sich Byrne mit seinem Buch, einer lebendigen Mischung aus Musikgeschichte und Autobiographie, anthropologischer Untersuchung und erklärendem Handbuch. Mit Verve und Witz nimmt er die Leser mit auf eine inspirierende Reise. Ein Buch für alle Fans von David Byrne und den Talking Heads – und für alle, die sich für die Kunstform Musik interessieren. Enthält zahlreiche farbige Abbildungen. »David Byrne ist ein brillanter, origineller und exzentrischer Rockstar, und er hat ein Buch geschrieben, das zu seinen vielfältigen Talenten passt.« The New York Times »Ein gut recherchiertes und wahnsinnig fesselndes Stück Musikgeschichte« The Independent

Eine Hymne auf das Fahrradfahren in den Metropolen dieser Welt! David Byrne, Sänger der Talking Heads, Klangerfinder und Geschichtenerzähler, Opernschreiber und Bildhauer, ist vor allem eines: Fahrradfahrer. Mit provokativer Gelassenheit hat er immer sein Faltbike dabei, vor allem in seinen Lieblingsstädten New York, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires – zwischen Bars und Galerien, Musikern und Malern. Immer auf der Suche nach dem Hype, immer auf der Flucht: David Byrne, der intelligenteste Agent des Pop, entwickelt vom Fahrrad aus seine Sicht auf die Dinge des Lebens mit seiner eigenen Mischung aus Witz, Neugier und Menschlichkeit.

Case-based methods have a long history in the social sciences. They are extensively used and raise many practical and theoretical questions. This book provides a comprehensive, critical examination of case-oriented research. It offers concrete proposals about the best research methods and provides an unparalleled guide to the emergence and complexity of the field.

Textploitation is divided up into four different text types (articles, stories, conversations, tiny texts) and each section has a lesson from elementary to advanced. Each lesson focuses not just on one grammar point or piece of vocabulary but also looks at developing skills and training learners to be more autonomous. This is achieved through guided discovery and awareness raising activities, using the texts as a source. Each lesson comes with a teaching tip and practical procedures designed to support teachers as they teach. Textploitation is divided up into four different text types (articles, stories, conversations, tiny texts) and each section has a lesson from elementary to advanced. Each lesson focuses not just on one grammar point or piece of vocabulary but also looks at developing skills and training learners to be more autonomous. This is achieved through guided discovery and awareness raising activities, using the texts as a source. Each lesson comes with a teaching tip and practical procedures designed to support teachers as they teach

A collection of photographs by writer and composer David Byrne of Talking Heads rock band, designed to appeal to photographers and rock fans alike. The collection appeared at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival. It is accompanied by Byrne's account of his selection of the images and what they mean to him.

David Byrne has written a book that updates and alters the Bible's cardinal sins for a more contemporary audience. Byrne wanted the book to be the size and shape of a portable Bible, and thus The New Sins resembles the sort of book a strange person in a robe would try to give you in an airport. Bizarre and profound, the book includes 80 color photographs taken by the author.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman--an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all. Don't miss the Spike Lee film of the Broadway hit American Utopia--on HBO. A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is soon to be a documentary from Spike Lee. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which she created for the Broadway show's curtain, is composed of small moments, expressions, gestures, and interactions that together offer a portrait of daily life and coexistence. With their creative talents combined, American Utopia is a salvo for kindness and a call for jubilation, a reminder to sing, dance, and waste not a moment. Beautifully designed and edited by Alex Kalman, American Utopia is a balm for the soul from two of the world's most extraordinary artists.

How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do's' and `don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the use of official statistics; use social surveys; understand probability and quantitative reasoning; interpret measurements; apply linear modelling; understand simulation and neural nets; and integrate quantitative and qualitative modelling in the research process. Jargon-free and written with the needs of students in mind, the book will be required reading for students interested in using quantitative research methods.

Blending musical influences from blues, country, reggae and classical music with their own original style, Talking Heads are "the thinking man's rock band" whose last four albums have each sold over one million copies. 60 four-color plates.

Světoznámý hudebník David Byrne ve své knize zkoumá, jak hluboce je hudba utvářena dobou a místem svého vzniku, a vysvětluje, jak nástup nahrávací technologie ve dvacátém století navždy změnil náš vztah k hraní, provozování a poslechu hudby. Autor v knize vystupuje jako historik a antropolog, vypravěč a sociolog, hledá zákonitosti hudební produkce a ukazuje, jak tyto zákonitosti ovlivnily jeho vlastní tvorbu v průběhu let s Talking Heads a mnoha jeho spolupracovníky, od Briana Ena po Fatboye Slima, stejně jako tvorbu avantgardních umělců osmdesátých let dvacátého století, jako byli Patti Smith, Ramones, Blondie a další. Přestože se jedná o literaturu faktu, kniha má velmi nelineární strukturu, v níž se fakta příručkového typu prolínají s prvky Byrneovy autobiografie a informacemi o hudební teorii, přičemž každá kapitola může stát i samostatně.