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David Byrne (2) (1952–)

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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af David Byrne

How Music Works (2012) 1,354 eksemplarer
Bicycle Diaries (2009) 902 eksemplarer
Arboretum (2006) 159 eksemplarer
The New Sins (2001) 155 eksemplarer
True Stories [1986 film] (1986) — Instruktør — 147 eksemplarer
Strange Ritual: Words and Pictures (1995) 95 eksemplarer
American Utopia (2018) 81 eksemplarer
Stay up Late (1987) 46 eksemplarer
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [music recording] (1981) — Artist — 43 eksemplarer
Rei Momo (1989) 24 eksemplarer
Uh-Oh (1991) 16 eksemplarer
The Catherine Wheel (1988) 12 eksemplarer
Look Into the Eyeball (2001) 12 eksemplarer
David Byrne (1994) 11 eksemplarer
Love This Giant (2012) 11 eksemplarer
Grown Backwards (2004) 10 eksemplarer
Feelings (1997) 7 eksemplarer
Music For The Knee Plays (2007) 5 eksemplarer
The Forest (2000) 3 eksemplarer
Big Love Hymnal (2008) 2 eksemplarer
Ava / Ninevah / Machu Picchu (1991) 2 eksemplarer
Brazil Classics 1 2 eksemplarer
Sacred Objects, Sleepless Nights (1994) 2 eksemplarer
Here Lies Love: Original Cast Recording (2013) — Komponist — 2 eksemplarer
Strange Overtones 1 eksemplar
Pontos de Vista (1988) 1 eksemplar
Bale Creek Allen (2007) 1 eksemplar
Forestry 1 eksemplar
Brazil Classics 2 1 eksemplar

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The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Bidragyder — 627 eksemplarer
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Bidragyder — 234 eksemplarer
The End of Print (1995) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver171 eksemplarer
Chaos & Cyber Culture (1994) — Bidragyder — 136 eksemplarer
Remain in Light (1980) — Songwriter — 84 eksemplarer
Stop Making Sense [1984 film] (1984) — Actor — 79 eksemplarer
Yours in Food, John Baldessari (2004) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Married to The Mob [1988 film] (2000) 38 eksemplarer
Vivid — Komponist — 31 eksemplarer
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
Songs from Liquid Days (1985) — Komponist — 28 eksemplarer
Songs without Rhyme: Prose by Celebrated Songwriters (2001) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
The Simpsons: Testify (2007) — Preformer — 2 eksemplarer
Red Hot Rio 2 by Red Hot Rio 2 (2011-08-08) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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This wasn't quite what I was expecting — the title made me imagine a travel book or a piece of cycle advocacy, but actually it's more of a semi-random collection of short essays about cities, the people who live there, and the arts, inspired by Byrne's travels to different parts of the world in the course of his work as a musician. When he travels, he likes to take a folding bike with him and use that to explore, but the cycling per se is only a rather minor part of the story. The format of the book is said to be loosely modelled on W G Sebald, with a mix of first-hand impressions, rambling philosophical sidetracks, and black-and-white photos, but there's a lot more shooting from the hip and a lot less evidence of weeks spent researching stuff in libraries than you would get in an actual Sebald book. Which is fair enough: I don't think anyone would be buying this book expecting to get heavyweight academic delvings.

Byrne is clearly an intelligent, thoughtful person, and his situation in life allows him to meet interesting people in the course of his travels (assuming that you accept artists, gallery-owners and musicians as "interesting people"...), so this makes for a pleasant, lively read, but I don't think you will find anything very earth-shattering here, unless you are someone who loves motor cars and thinks of the USA as the model of perfect urban planning (in which case it might annoy you a little...). A good short-attention-span book to read on a journey or in a hospital waiting-room, probably.
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thorold | 27 andre anmeldelser | Mar 22, 2024 |
2024 book #12. 2017. David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) gives his musings on what music is, where it comes from, how it is made and sold, and what it's good for, with copious examples from his long and successful career. Very enjoyable and even informative. Recommended.
 
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capewood | 27 andre anmeldelser | Mar 5, 2024 |
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.… (mere)
 
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tombomp | 27 andre anmeldelser | Oct 31, 2023 |
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.
 
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d.v. | 27 andre anmeldelser | May 16, 2023 |

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