Singer and conceptual artist --
Mythology and methodology --
Conceptual romanticism --
The method of this book --
Stripping down rock songs --
The tentative rejection of mimesis --
Cybernetics as inspiration --
The first years of Talking Heads --
Ethological and neurological aspects of music --
Experiments with rhythm, texture, and persona --
A wider musical community --
Music and dance as social exchange --
Isolated voices embedded in rhythm --
At the crossroads : Remain in light --
Comparative studies of myth, archetypes, and ritual --
Archetypal conflicts : "goin' boom boom boom" --
Speaking in tongues : persona as ritual texture --
Introducing performance theater --
A concert in the cinema : Stop making sense --
Music in context : Talking Heads vs. the television --
The knee plays : music for Robert Wilson --
Little creatures : television's naiveté --
True stories : a generic Gesamtkunstwerk --
A soundtrack for Mabou Mines' Dead end kids --
The forest : a Byrne-Wilson piece --
The forest as film script --
Rock star and ethnographer --
The artist as ethnomusicologist --
Naked : Talking Heads' most "African" record --
Ilé Aiyé : a musical ethnographic art documentary --
Rei Momo : incorporating Latin sensibility --
Soundtracks for ethnographic are documentaries --
In the mirror : sex 'n' drugs 'n' electronic music --
The arena of visual communication --
Photographic repertoires --
Strange ritual : documents of sacralization --
The voodoo of the business world --
The new sins : a new mythology of chaos --
Dressed objects and other furniture --
Tropicalismo in New York --
The singer as imaginary landscape --
Choreographed songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno --
History in the disco mirror ball --
An emotional epistemology --
Envisioning emotional epistemological information --
Arboretum : the garden of correspondences --
The representation of politics --
Who owns our eyes and ears? --
Philosophy in installments --
Bicycle diaries : a comparative mythology of cities --
