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 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...
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New York :
Abrams Press,
2018.
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Table of 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.