Love Goes to Building on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes

Love Goes to Building on Fire:  Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes is a 368-page softcover published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  The book is in very good condition. Book Summary In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented block by block, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the infrastructure is collapsing. The 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. Will Hermes moves panoramically from postal-Dylan in Greenwich Village, to the arson scarred South Bronx Barrios were salsa and hip-hop were created, to the Lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music where reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGB and the Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation. The music that resulted went on to change the world. ISBN:  978-0-374-53354-0