All Hopped Up and Ready to Go – Music from the Streets of New York 1927–77 - Softcover

Fletcher, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039333483X ISBN 13: 9780393334838

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Synopsis

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. 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. With great attention to the colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie to Tito Puente, Bob Dylan, and the Ramones, he takes us through bebop, the Latin music scene, the folk revival, glitter music, disco, punk, and hip-hop as they emerged from the neighborhood streets of Harlem, the East and West Village, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. 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.

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Review:

Thoroughly researched, engaging, and perceptive.

Fletcher tells the story well.... His gift is enthusiasm.

In his richly detailed study of fifty years of the city's most important musical history, music journalist Fletcher vividly recreates the birth and evolution of jazz, folk, pop, punk and hip-hop as the strains of these urban styles emerged from the urban cacophony of New York.

Fletcher's commentary melds very different cultures to shows interrelationships and how new genres built upon the foundations of predecessors... Anyone interested in popular music and the rich cultural heritage of New York--indeed, of all of the U.S.--should read this book.

About the Author:

Tony Fletcher is the author of three music biographies and a novel. He founded the music magazine Jamming! and has contributed to Newsday, Spin, and Rolling Stone, among many other publications. He lives in Mt. Tremper, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 039333483X
• ISBN 13: 9780393334838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496