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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes (Paperback, 2014)

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Punk Rock and Hip-Hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as the Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented - all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing. But rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire is the first book to tell the full story of the era's music scenes and the phenomenal and surprising ways they intersected. Moving panoramically from Johnny Pacheco and the Fania All-Stars renting Yankee Stadium to take salsa to the masses, to the New Jersey locals Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith claiming the jungleland of Manhattan as their own, from Grandmaster Flash transforming the turntable into a musical instrument, to David Byrne and the Talking Heads proving that rock music 'ain't no foolin' around', Will Hermes captures the creativity, drive and full-out lust for life of the great New York musicians of those years whose music went on to change the world. 'New York City in the 1970s - perhaps you had to be there. But don't worry if you weren't. Will Hermes was right on the spot, and he has written one of the best books you will ever read about the relationship between a place and its musics' Nick Coleman, author of The Train in the Night- A Story of Music and Loss 'It was the best of times, it was the best of places- Will Hermes captures the creative incandescence of New York in those five years that changed music.' Richard Williams

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Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780241003756
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201359421

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Book Title
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
Author
Will Hermes
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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233mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
522g

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Will Hermes
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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Lively survey of an important stage in the history of popular music
The book is a detailed, energetic analysis of the many facets of the 70's New York music scene. The writer conveys his own excitement at the now-famous bands whom he saw playing during this period.
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