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A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city?s music scenes?from folk to house music?and how those scenes shaped the city. Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you?ll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won?t know it?almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how they shaped music scenes, or their impact on the neighborhoods around them. Traditional music history tells us that famous scenes are created by brilliant, singular artists. But dig deeper and you?ll find that they?re actually created by cheap rent, empty space, and other unglamorous factors that allow artistic communities to flourish. The 1960s folk scene would have never existed without access to Greenwich Village?s Washington Square Park. If the city hadn?t gone bankrupt in 1975, there would have been

Author : Jesse Rifkin

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ISBN-10 : 9781335449320

ISBN-13 : 9781335449320