Titlebook: Heroin and Music in New York City; Barry Spunt Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014 Heroin.music.NYC.Ameri

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R&B,Since at least the early 1900s, New York has been a focal point for music made by and aimed at the African American audience. By the 1920s, blues had a base in New York because optimal studio recording conditions prevailed, and Bessie Smith, the greatest of all blues singers, had made New York City home.

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Introduction,Numerous popular songs are about drugs or contain references to drugs—all types of drugs. Over the years politicians and others have denounced what they see as the glorification of drugs by the music industry.

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Rock,ve all. . What began as “rock’n’ roll” in the 1950s and became “rock” in the 1960s today embraces many styles and subgenres. As we saw in chapter one, rock music in New York goes back to the birth of the genre and has a very rich history in the city.

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Latin and Caribbean Music,tions in the city, I discuss heroin use and also heroin dealing in these populations. Then I present an overview of the various subgenres of Latin and Caribbean music that have been popular in the city. Finally, I examine the use of heroin by New York–based performers and musicians from these music subgenres.

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Overview: Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians‘ playing, creativity, and careers.978-1-349-45600-0978-1-137-31429-1