Review for Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever info
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by Adam Verner]
An NPR Best Music 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 phenome
