Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992

Biography of Arthur Russell, an avant-garde art musician and composer who produced popular dance music in the 1970s and 80s.

Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to the downtown New York music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. Based on interviews with more than seventy of his collaborators, family members, and friends, Hold On to Your Dreams provides vital new information about this singular, eccentric musician and his role in the boundary-breaking downtown music scene. Tim Lawrence traces Russell?s odyssey from his hometown of Oskaloosa, Iowa, to countercultural San Francisco, and eventually to New York, where he lived from 1973 until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1992.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Formations (1951?1973)
2. Explorations (1973?1975)
3. Alternatives (1975?1977)
4. Intensities (1977?1980)
5. Variations (1980?1984)
6. Reverberations (1984?1987)
7. Tangents (1987?1992)
Epilogue Notes
Discography
Bibliography
Index