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From Publishers Weekly From the Brill Building to CBGB, from Washington Square Park to the Apollo Theater, New York has been the birthplace and center of an astonishing variety of musical trends. Fletcher chronicles the beginnings of the folk movement in the sing-alongs in Washington Square Park and the opening of the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street in 1957, where musicians could hold hootenannies. Drawing on interviews and archives of well-known stories, Fletcher nimbly explores the ways that various musical styles benefit from and grow out of their contact with their surrounding cultures. For example, the music scene of the Lower East Side was a direct product of the area's thriving movements in poetry, filmmaking, avant-garde music and experimental theater. In his richly detailed study of 50 years of the city's most import

William Olmstead said Great History of New York Music. A great overview of New York musical history from the Twenties to the Seventies. It covers jazz, folk, doo wop, rock, punk, etc. My only complaint of this great book is that it is more about the music business than the individual artists. There is however information about the artists but I could have used more. That said, this is an excellent read. Mark Lerner said A great read, not your typical music book. A real treat for any music fan or musician. The book has an unusual approach, revealing the roots of various NYC musical scenes by focusing on key players. The subtitle is telling: "Music from the Streets of New York." It's not an exhaustive history of Afro-Cuban jazz, the folk revival, punk, or disco. Rather it shows you how those genres (and others) were formed in and by the city. It sketches a lot of fascinating connections between musicians and industry folks, and once a genre has really taken hold . "Mixed feelings" according to Just Mike. I am a lifelong New Yorker and music lover. I grew up just a stone's throw from some of the places described in this book. I enjoyed reading it from this perspective. It is fast-paced and hard to put down, and it contains a lot of interesting bits of information, some of which I had not heard elsewhere. But while I recommend the book on the whole, I thought it had some serious flaws and major omissions. No, not nit-picky omissions of the kind that are inevitable when anyone sets out to write a fifty-yea

Tony Fletcher is the author of six non-fiction books and one novel. He lives with his family in the Catskill Mountains.. His biography of drummer Keith Moon has been named in many a Best Music Book list; his biography of R.E.M., 'Remarks Remade,' has been published in over half a dozen countries; and history of the NYC music scene, 'All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York, 1927-77,' was widely and positively received upon publication in 2009. His latest biograp

Fletcher paints a vibrant picture of mid-twentieth-century New York and the ways in which its indigenous art, theater, literature, and political movements converged to create such unique music. All the while, Fletcher goes well beyond the history of the music to explain just what it was about these distinctive New York sounds that took the entire nation by storm. 33 photos. A penetrating and entertaining exploration of New York’s music scene from Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop. From Tony Fletcher, the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon, comes an incisive history of New York’s seminal music scenes and their vast contributions to our culture. With great attention to the colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie t

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