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

by Tony Fletcher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039333483X
• ISBN13: 9780393334838
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"