BYRNE DAVID

(P/B) HOW MUSIC WORKS
How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) A HISTORY OF THE WORLD (IN DINGBATS)
The phenomenally creative musician and filmmaker David Byrne presents new artwork that explores daily life in surprising ways, with unique reflections on shared human experiences - a book for our time from a highly influential artist Through striking and humorous figurative drawings, the iconic artist and musician David Byrne depicts daily life in intriguing ways. His illustrations, created while under quarantine, expand on the dingbat, a typographic ornament used to illuminate or break up blocks of text, to explore the nuances of life un...
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SOCIAL EXCLUSION (P/B)
"Social Exclusion" is a key phrase in social policy and social politics across most of contemporary Europe. It is a description of the condition of individuals, households, neighbourhoods, ethnic and other "identity" groups who can be identified as being excluded from society. (. . .) The second edition of this widely read book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion. (. . .) This is important reading for students on social sciences courses including sociology, social theo...
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