Burning down the House
Subtitle: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2025
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780063023000
Copyright date: 2025
First sentence: While the seven and a half million residents went about their daily business of striving and surviving, New York City confronted the specter of fiscal catastrophe during the first week of June 1975.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: A City in My Mind
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Artists Only
pagenum: 10; label: 3
title: The Harvard of Art Schools
pagenum: 23; label: 4
title: An Anthropologist in Arbutus
pagenum: 30; label: 5
title: RISD & MICA
pagenum: 41; label: 6
title: The Admiral’s Daughter
pagenum: 51; label: 7
title: The Amazing Artistics
pagenum: 63; label: 8
title: CBGB & OMFUG
pagenum: 73; label: 9
title: Chrystie Street
pagenum: 86; label: 10
title: A Conservative Impulse
pagenum: 96; label: 11
title: Born to Run
pagenum: 109; label: 12
title: Punk is Coming
pagenum: 121; label: 13
title: They’re So Cute
pagenum: 134; label: 14
title: London Calling
pagenum: 146; label: 15
title: A Young Jesuit Monk
pagenum: 158; label: 16
title: Summer of Sam
pagenum: 166; label: 17
title: Don’t Call it Punk
pagenum: 176; label: 18
title: The Big Country
pagenum: 187; label: 19
title: Compass Point
pagenum: 196; label: 20
title: Take Me to the River
pagenum: 204; label: 21
title: Feet on the Ground
pagenum: 215; label: 22
title: Fear of Everything
pagenum: 226; label: 23
title: This Ain’t No Party
pagenum: 233; label: 24
title: Two Fourteen-Year-Old Boys
pagenum: 243; label: 25
title: Melody Attack
pagenum: 253; label: 26
title: Once in a Lifetime
pagenum: 265; label: 27
title: Expanded Heads
pagenum: 274; label: 28
title: Bush of Ghosts
pagenum: 282; label: 29
title: Geniuses of Love
pagenum: 293; label: 30
title: The Name of This Band
pagenum: 303; label: 31
title: Girlfriend is Better
pagenum: 311; label: 32
title: Speaking in Tongues
pagenum: 323; label: 33
title: Preppy Funk Triumphant
pagenum: 332; label: 24
title: A Movie Waiting to be Filmed
pagenum: 342; label: 35
title: Close to Perfection
pagenum: 355; label: 36
title: And They Were
pagenum: 365; label: 37
title: An Anthropologist in Virgil
pagenum: 373; label: 38
title: Pleading for Mercy
pagenum: 385; label: 39
title: Naked in Paris
pagenum: 395; label: 40
title: Don’t Mention Harmony
pagenum: 404; label: 41
title: Independence Day
pagenum: 417; label: 42
title: Hall of Fame
pagenum: 427; title: Coda: American Utopia
pagenum: 437; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 446; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 450; title: Notes
pagenum: 464; title: Index
pagenum: 484