I Hear Music in the Streets: New York 1969-89 - by Guillermo M Ferrando (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Capturing the energy of New York City's music subcultures--across hip-hop, punk and rap--through an array of snapshots by photographers including Peter Hujar, Susan Meiselas and many more

Featuring the work of Arlene Gottfried, Peter Hujar, Stephen Shames, Bruce Davidson, Susan Meiselas, Joseph Rodriguez and 60 other photographers, I Hear Music in the Streets is an ode to New York City's music scenes and subcultures from 1969 to 1989. The book is structured into eight thematic chapters, each exploring different communities, movements and spaces that shaped the city's music scene: "The Bronx Boys," "The Oddballs," "Black Power," "The Pride," "The Subways," "Our Latin Thing," "The Beach" and "Days of Disco." Guiding us through this urban journey is music historian Tim Lawrence, author of the bestselling titles Love Saves the Day (2004), Hold On to Your Dreams (2009) and Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor (2016).
Photographers include: Andy Warhol, Arlene Gottfried, Bill Bernstein, Bruce Davidson, Bruce Gilden, Camilo José Vergara, Carrie Boretz, Chantal Regnault, Charles Stewart, Chris Stein, David Godlis, David Gonzalez, Diana Davis, Diego Echevarría, Dustin Pittman, Edo Bertoglio, Geraldine Pontius, Helen Levitt, Henry Chalfant, Jack Garofalo, Jamel Shabazz, Jill Krementz, Joseph Rodriguez, Laura Levine, Leee Black Childers, Leon Gast, Leonard Fink, Leonard Freed, Lynn Goldsmith, Martha Cooper, Marylinn K. Yee, Ming Smith, Nan Goldin, Nicholas Taylor, Peter Hujar, Pierre Venant, Richard Sandler, Ricky Flores, Roberta Bayley, Shane McCauley, Stephen Shames, Susan Meiselas, Thomas Hoepker, Tina Paul, Tod Papageorge, Tom Bianchi, Tom Lee, Volker Hinz, Waring Abbott.

Review Quotes

If you didn't live it yourself, you at least know the stories of New York City in the '60s, '70s and '80s: when subways were plastered not with sleek DTC ads but with raucous graffiti, when hip-hop was born in the Bronx and exploded across the city while lines snaked outside disco nightclubs, when the Black Power movement rose up alongside Pride. It's a time that cannot be contained, so I Hear Music in the Streets embraces the chaos: ...--Hannah Argo "Inside Hook"

The oversized art book, replete with a padded cover that just fits snuggly in your arms, is a dazzling fantasia of New York's cinematic underground, with vibrant scenes from an age before soaring rents and landlords razed the city's cultural landscape.--Miss Rosen "Huck magazine"