This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Space in New York City

A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city’s music scenes—from folk to house music—and how those scenes shaped the city.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you’ll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won’t know it—almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how they sh...