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New York 1973-1977. Cinque Anni Che Hanno Rivoluzionato La Musica (2014)

by Will Hermes(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8875784280 (ISBN13: 9788875784287)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Codice

review 1: One of the best books about music I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It has taught me more about the bands I know (Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Springsteen, the Velvets) and has opened my eyes to an entirely new stable of acts that I hadn't heard of. A soundtrack of jazz, punk and contemporary classical has been playing for the past two weeks thanks to Will Hermes. The narrative is framed with cultural events from 73-77 to give everything the context that makes you feel as if you were there, in NY, going to these gigs with him...I'm going to read it again.
review 2: The mid-'70's in New York had an End Times feel: the City was $3 billion in the hole, and President Gerald Ford (in the words of a "Daily News" headline) told the City to "Drop Dead", until the... more other members of the G6 pointed out to him that New York's demise could have dire effects on the global economy. Crime was rampant, the City's infrastructure was decaying, and heroin was cheap. The plug had been pulled, and the bathwater was swirling down the drain; but all sorts of interesting things were clinging to the side of the tub. In the '70's, New York managed to produce an incredibly fecund and diverse musical breeding ground, of all kinds of music: salsa, hip-hop, disco, "classical" music, avant-garde "loft" jazz, and punk. These genres evolved independently of each other, and then started to cross-pollinate and influence each other, while remaining autonomous. Will Hermes does a very good job of taking a necessarily superficial, synoptic view of the whole scene. As you read, you have to remind yourself that, as a teenager from Queens, Hermes experienced a tiny fraction of what he describes firsthand; he carefully grounds any of his personal experiences in the first person. This book could easily have been five times bigger.Lou Reed, RIP. less

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