Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374533547 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Disco and salsa. 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. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the infrastructure was collapsing. 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 reinventedblock by block, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. 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.. Punk rock and hip-hop
"Fabulously Sprawling and Messy" according to Phil. This is a messy and sprawling account of the music in scene in New York at the beginning of the seventies. More experiential than a scholarly text, there are times the author doesn't sacrifice detail for clarity, but the effect captures the scene. It's not an expose, so the anecdotes help illuminate the scene and its players. The music we listen to now is a consequence of just a fe. "Great anecdotes, frustrating lack of structure" according to Lisa Borders. I bought this book as research for a novel I'm writing. I loved the concept of focusing on this pivotal period in music in New York. And while there are some great nuggets buried in these pages, the fragmented narrative made for an unsatisfying read at times. I longed for an overarching narrative, something to tie this collection of anecdotes together. There really are some lovely . BPM NY said Moves Quickly. As some other reviewers have noted, the book jumps around quite a bit. Initially, I found it really frustrating how quickly the author would jump from subject to subject, as I frequently wanted more depth than was provided. However, as the book developed, I found that the pacing of the book really helped reinforce the author's viewpoint of what these times were like, and all of the
He makes the rest of us (this writer included) wish we'd been there.” Georgia Young, Paste“Hermes does an expert turn here in his book about the music scene in 1970s New York, moving between musical genres and the human worlds they contained with the light-headed excitement of a bright grad student who's transferring from one subway line to another.” Emily Carter, Minneapolis Star-Tribune“A breathtaking, panoramic portrait of five years that music in New York City was alive, flourishing, and kicking out the jams.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Hermes moves effortlessly back and forth between the various musical genres while interspersing stori