Bicycle Diaries
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David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means...
How Music Works
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How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a...
Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century
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Talking Heads have achieved the status of rock legends. With unforgettable hits including "Take Me...
Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters
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"World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has...
Presenting Celia Cruz
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Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso lived a life larger than most. In a career that spanned fifty years...
I’ll Take You There Mavis Staples: The Staple Songers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway
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Now in her seventies, Mavis Staples has been a fixture in the music world for decades. One of the...
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Music Made New in New York City in the ’70s
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Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing, but...
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their...
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