"In my book,
This Must Be The Place, I examined sixty years of New York City music scenes, analysing the music, real estate, and economics, to try to understand why and how some of the city’s most fruitful scenes came to exist – and how they fell apart. When I asked over 100 musicians, deejays, club workers, and club-goers about what makes a scene vibrant, the answers I heard didn’t just involve the marquee names who are typically given all the credit. Rather, each scene’s success – from the 70s glam rock at Max’s Kansas City to the 00s indie at the Silent Barn – required a rich ecosystem of artists working at all levels, as well as behind-the-scenes workers. Some became internationally known, while others never made it very far beyond the city limits; but remove any one of them and the whole ecosystem falls apart. One of the guiding principles for
This Must Be the Place was to try to elevate some of these people, who were major players in their scenes but, in one way or another, never quite got their due. ..."
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