Downtown Calling

In the late 1970s the greatest city in the world was teetering on the edge of total chaos A failed economy crime and en mass housing corruption gave way to a city in crisis Yet out of the economic and social strife that held the Big Apple hostage a family of homegrown cultures that would forever change the world began to emerge Downtown Calling not only documents in detail the evolution of New York Citys fertile music and art subculture during this period but how its collective output continues to play a prominent driving role in the international fashion art and music industries today