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

by Will Hermes

Book Overview

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"