The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront

This book traces the enormously important music and art scene in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg between the late 1980s and 2010s. Cisco Bradley's narrative is a bit dry and he makes some lazy political and economic arguments regarding the neighborhood's subsequent decline (involving gentrification, rent control changes, etc.). But his book is very well-researched as he focuses on Williamsburg's key venues, radio stations, festivals and musicians (including Little Women, Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson, Nate Wooley and Connie Crothers, and many others). Recommended.