Borrow it
Coverart for item
The Resource The 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, Kembrew McLeod

The 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, Kembrew McLeod

Creator
Author
Summary
The 1960s to early 1970s 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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
361 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Harry Koutoukas arrives in the Village
  • Shirley Clarke's downtown connections
  • Andy Warhol goes pop
  • Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, and the pop generation
  • Ed Sanders incites an indie media revolution
  • Ellen Stewart is La MaMa
  • Hibiscus and family grow underground roots
  • Preserving the downtown landscape for artists
  • Off-Off-Broadway oddities
  • Underground film's bizarre cast of characters
  • Multimedia experiments at the Factory
  • Chaos at the Cino
  • Camping in church and at sea
  • Migrating east
  • Lower East Side rock and radicalism
  • La MaMa gets ridiculous
  • Jackie Curtis takes center stage
  • Madness at Max's and the Factory
  • Darkness descends on the East Village
  • From the margins to the mainstream and back again
  • Femmes fatales
  • Underground video ushers in a new media age
  • An American family bends reality
  • Pork, glam, and audiotape
  • Literary rockers
  • Hibiscus heads home
  • Mercer's mixes it up
  • DIY TV
  • The lights dim on Off-Off-Broadway
  • Punk rock's freaky roots
  • New York rock explodes
  • Suburban subversives
  • Inventing "punk"
  • Coda
Isbn
9781419732522
Instance
Label
The 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
Title
The downtown pop underground
Title remainder
New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
Statement of responsibility
Kembrew McLeod
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
The 1960s to early 1970s 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
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1970-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
McLeod, Kembrew
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Arts, American
  • Popular culture
  • Music
  • Arts américains
  • Culture populaire
  • Musique
  • ART
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Arts, American
  • Music
  • Popular culture
  • New York (State)
  • Pop-Art
  • Underground
  • New York- Manhattan
Label
The 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, Kembrew McLeod
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Harry Koutoukas arrives in the Village -- Shirley Clarke's downtown connections -- Andy Warhol goes pop -- Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, and the pop generation -- Ed Sanders incites an indie media revolution -- Ellen Stewart is La MaMa -- Hibiscus and family grow underground roots -- Preserving the downtown landscape for artists -- Off-Off-Broadway oddities -- Underground film's bizarre cast of characters -- Multimedia experiments at the Factory -- Chaos at the Cino -- Camping in church and at sea -- Migrating east -- Lower East Side rock and radicalism -- La MaMa gets ridiculous -- Jackie Curtis takes center stage -- Madness at Max's and the Factory -- Darkness descends on the East Village -- From the margins to the mainstream and back again -- Femmes fatales -- Underground video ushers in a new media age -- An American family bends reality -- Pork, glam, and audiotape -- Literary rockers -- Hibiscus heads home -- Mercer's mixes it up -- DIY TV -- The lights dim on Off-Off-Broadway -- Punk rock's freaky roots -- New York rock explodes -- Suburban subversives -- Inventing "punk" -- Coda
Control code
1028799441
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
361 pages
Isbn
9781419732522
Lccn
2017956862
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1028799441
Label
The 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, Kembrew McLeod
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Harry Koutoukas arrives in the Village -- Shirley Clarke's downtown connections -- Andy Warhol goes pop -- Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, and the pop generation -- Ed Sanders incites an indie media revolution -- Ellen Stewart is La MaMa -- Hibiscus and family grow underground roots -- Preserving the downtown landscape for artists -- Off-Off-Broadway oddities -- Underground film's bizarre cast of characters -- Multimedia experiments at the Factory -- Chaos at the Cino -- Camping in church and at sea -- Migrating east -- Lower East Side rock and radicalism -- La MaMa gets ridiculous -- Jackie Curtis takes center stage -- Madness at Max's and the Factory -- Darkness descends on the East Village -- From the margins to the mainstream and back again -- Femmes fatales -- Underground video ushers in a new media age -- An American family bends reality -- Pork, glam, and audiotape -- Literary rockers -- Hibiscus heads home -- Mercer's mixes it up -- DIY TV -- The lights dim on Off-Off-Broadway -- Punk rock's freaky roots -- New York rock explodes -- Suburban subversives -- Inventing "punk" -- Coda
Control code
1028799441
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
361 pages
Isbn
9781419732522
Lccn
2017956862
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1028799441

Subject

Genre

Library Locations

    • Portland Public LibraryBorrow it
      5 Monument Square, Portland, ME, 04101, US
      43.657680 -70.258550

Library Links

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Portland Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.