Talking Heads

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As the first collection of academic essays to discuss the work of the band and its individual members, Talking Heads examines the band in detail, places their work in context, and discusses its key importance in the development of contemporary popular music.

Talking Heads are one of the most important and influential bands in American popular music history. Emerging from the fertile musical culture of late 1970s New York, the band released a string of acclaimed albums (from Talking Heads 77 to Naked); released what has been described as the finest concert film of all time (Stop Making Sense); collaborated with key artists and musicians (Brian Eno, Robert Wilson, Jonathan Demme, and others); and produced some of the most iconic tracks in American popular music (Psycho Killer, Life During Wartime, Once in a Lifetime, Road to Nowhere).

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Sean Albiez is an Independent Scholar and musician. He has published on electronic music, music technology, punk and post-punk. He is currently researching topics in electronic music history and has thirty years experience lecturing in popular music at UK universities and colleges. He is co-editor of Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011), Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Contributing Editor (Music Technology) for the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World. He produces electronic music as ghost elektron and - with Martin James - as Nostalgia Deathstar.

David Pattie is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He researches and publishes in a number of areas; popular music performance and culture, contemporary British and Scottish theatre, and the work of Samuel Beckett. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (Bloomsbury, 2007), and the co-editor of the books Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022).