Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
By Will Hermes
Read by Adam Verner
Unabridged
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ISBN: 9781455156269
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ISBN: 9781455156252
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ISBN: 9781455156276
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ISBN: 9781455156290
Runtime: | 13.03 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Drama/Performing Arts |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
An NPR Best Music Book of 2011
A Slate Magazine Best Book of 2012: Staff Pick
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2011
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, 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. From New Year’s Day 1973 to New
Year’s Eve 1977, the book moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the Lower Manhattan lofts where
jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGB and the Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation. As they remade the music, the musicians
at the center of the book invented themselves: Willie Colón and the Fania All-Stars renting Yankee Stadium to take salsa to the masses, New Jersey locals Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith claiming
the jungle land of Manhattan as their own, Grandmaster Flash transforming the turntable into a musical instrument, and David Byrne and Talking Heads proving that rock music “ain’t no foolin’
around.” Will Hermes was there—venturing from his native Queens to the small, dark rooms where the revolution was taking place—and in Love Goes to Buildings on Fire he captures the
creativity, drive, and full-out lust for life of the great New York musicians of those years, who knew that the music they were making would change the world.
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Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway |
Category: | Nonfiction/Drama/Performing Arts |
Runtime: | 13.03 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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