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

by Will Hermes

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0374533547

ISBN13:9780374533540

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:392 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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Non-Fiction Arts, Music & Photography History Music Musical Genres

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