Punk Rock and Hip-Hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as the Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented - all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city"s infrastructure was collapsing. But rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Love Goes to Buildings on Fire (Will Hermes)