[FM] Gangs of New York

[Kerry Grombacher]

David,

I noticed the Linda Thompson song credit, too. Did you
recognize Maura O'Connell? Scorcese was not altogether
meticulous about historical details. According to
historians whom I have heard discussing the Draft
Riots, there was no shelling of New York City by the
Navy, the riots didn't reach into Hell's Kitchen, and
they weren't connected to the Nativist/Immigrant
struggle. And the portrayal of Boss Tweed as a comic
bumbler didn't ring true to me.

If you're interested, you can pick up modestly-priced
first editions of Herbert Asbury's books, including
Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, and Barbary
Coast, from antiquarian booksellers all around the
country who sell online. Paperback re-issues are
available, too. Asbury himself was not meticulous
about detail either. Adam Gopnik had a nice essay
about him in a recent New Yorker.

Kerry Grombacher
www.kgrombacher.com (Admission is free to the Museum
of Sands Motel Photographs)

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:37:48 -0700
From: david <dbroida@comcast.net>
To: folkmusic@grassyhill.org
Subject: [FM] Gangs Of New York

I'm curious about the music in Martin Scorcese's film 
"Gangs Of New York".  The credits list a song by Linda

Thompson, and that means that the director didn't use 
period music.  Right?  And if he was so meticulous
about detail, why not select Irish folks tunes of 
the period?
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