Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0374533547 ISBN13: 9780374533540 Release Date: September 2012 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Length: 392 Pages Weight: 0.80 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2" A vivid, dramatic account of how half a dozen kinds of modern music--punk rock, art rock, disco, salsa, rap, minimalist classical--emerged in new forms and cross-pollinated all at once in the middle seventies in NYC. Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented--block by block, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the infrastructure was collapsing. But rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless. Will Hermes's Love Goes to Buildings on Fire is the first book to tell the full story