Description
"Us V them: The age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014) is a look at the music and social history of 10 unlikely years in Bloomberg's New York, of a generation that was living through times changing so fast, it would take another decade for someone to parse through what happened. Though once poised as the new vanguard of counterculture, the speed and ease at which indie music reached the masses in a post-Napster world marked the changing tides of music, technology, and culture forever. As a work of music history, this book chronicles how a community of NYC artists, amateurs, and audiences came into being, and to track how those strands unraveled into a post-indie malaise during this incredibly tumultuous decade of politics and pop culture. Through reporting, research, and original interviews with some of the key players, Us V Them offers a narrative history and critical analysis of what indie was, is, and will be again in New York City"--
