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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9781419732522
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1419732528
ISBN-13
9781419732522
eBay Product ID (ePID)
248548073
Product Key Features
Book Title
Downtown Pop Underground : New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, History / Contemporary (1945-), Popular Culture, American / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-956862
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Downtown New York in the latter half of twentieth century was so much more than a Warhol print and a CBGB-OMFUG T-shirt. McLeod tracked down more than 100 denizens of that freaky bohemian milieu to tell the stories most people don't know. The Downtown Pop Underground breathes new fire into a familiar history and is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how American bohemia really happened."-- Ann Powers , critic, NPR Music, The Downtown Pop Underground honors those who were at the forefront of a movement that transformed our understandings of sexuality and artistic freedom., "I love this book. It's filled with insight about a very important group of artists making blueprints for the avant-garde. They were so far ahead of the mainstream curve that they created new shapes out of the curve, revealing cracks in the yoke of custom and convention. McLeod has done us all a favor by focusing on the lives of these fabulous futurists and oddball observers who looked at life and showed us that reality is absurdity dressed in a three-piece suit."-- Jane Wagner , author of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Kembrew McLeod manages a Herculean task: mapping the vast spider web of intersecting trajectories in pre-careerist downtown New York. He makes it plain how much of the action occurred in theater, and how much of the culture we owe to gay men and women., "The author covers plenty of ground smoothly and organically, immersing readers in this exciting period." -- Library Journal, I love this book. It's filled with insight about a very important group of artists making blueprints for the avant-garde. They were so far ahead of the mainstream curve that they created new shapes out of the curve, revealing cracks in the yoke of custom and convention. McLeod has done us all a favor by focusing on the lives of these fabulous futurists and oddball observers who looked at life and showed us that reality is absurdity dressed in a three-piece suit., " The Downtown Pop Underground honors those who were at the forefront of a movement that transformed our understandings of sexuality and artistic freedom."-- Lily Tomlin, Kembrew McLeod has created a vivid history of the art underground--the epics staged in tiny storefronts, the glittering drag queens, the outré films, experimental music, and rabid poetry--that filtered up into the mainstream and cracked it open in the 1960s and '70s. I've read many books on this era, and this is the first to show the interconnections between all the arts and artists that created what now seems an almost mythic bohemia., "Kembrew McLeod manages a Herculean task: mapping the vast spider web of intersecting trajectories in pre-careerist downtown New York. He makes it plain how much of the action occurred in theater, and how much of the culture we owe to gay men and women."-- Luc Sante , author of Low Life and The Other Paris, McLeod's deft and generous book tells of a constellation of avant-garde squatters, divas, and dissidents who reinvented the world--a story which comes to seem more improbable the more meticulously he records it. Through a panoply of witnessing voices, he channels a recent past so familiar we risk taking it for granted., Downtown New York in the latter half of twentieth century was so much more than a Warhol print and a CBGB-OMFUG T-shirt. McLeod tracked down more than 100 denizens of that freaky bohemian milieu to tell the stories most people don't know. The Downtown Pop Underground breathes new fire into a familiar history and is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how American bohemia really happened., The Downtown Pop Underground tells the story of underground artists of the 1960s and '70s, an amalgam of bustling radical creativity and fearless groundbreaking work in art, music, and theater . . . Having walked these streets as a child, I can attest to the visceral accuracy of the book's portrayal of a time when artists affected a true change in the way that we view our culture and ourselves., "McLeod's deft and generous book tells of a constellation of avant-garde squatters, divas, and dissidents who reinvented the world--a story which comes to seem more improbable the more meticulously he records it. Through a panoply of witnessing voices, he channels a recent past so familiar we risk taking it for granted."-- Jonathan Lethem , author of The Fortress of Solitude, " The Downtown Pop Underground tells the story of underground artists of the 1960s and '70s, an amalgam of bustling radical creativity and fearless groundbreaking work in art, music, and theater . . . Having walked these streets as a child, I can attest to the visceral accuracy of the book's portrayal of a time when artists affected a true change in the way that we view our culture and ourselves." -- Tim Robbins, The author covers plenty of ground smoothly and organically, immersing readers in this exciting period.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
700.97471
Synopsis
The 1960s to early '70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn't become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce-and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world.
LC Classification Number
NX511.N4M3954 2018
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