A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories

by Chris Stamey

Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it." In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery's CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477316221
• ISBN13: 9781477316221
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"