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

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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 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

• McLeod, Kembrew, 1970-

Author

• McLeod, Kembrew, 1970-

Subject

• Arts américains -- New York (État) | New York -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
• Arts, American
• Arts, American -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• Culture populaire -- New York (État) | New York -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
• History
• Music
• Music -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• Musique -- New York (État) | New York -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
• 1900-1999
• New York- Manhattan
• Nonfiction
• Pop-Art
• Popular culture
• Popular culture -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
• Underground
• New York (State) -- New York
• ART -- History | Contemporary (1945- )

Genre

• Nonfiction
• History

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

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography