Television's Marquee Moon

ISBN-13: 9781441186058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 244 str.

Bryan Waterman

Opis

Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs a sign with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB which, he tells them, stands for "Country Bluegrass and Blues." That's exactly the sort of stuff they play, they lie, somehow managing to get a gig out of him. After the first show their band, Television, lands a regular string of Sundays. By the end of the summer a scene has developed that includes Tom Verlaine's new love interest, a poet-turned-rock chanteuse named Patti Smith. American punk rock is born.
Bryan Waterman peels back the layers of the origin myth and, assembling a rich historical archive, situates Marquee Moon in a broader cultural history of SoHo and the East Village. As Waterman traces the downtown scene's influences, public image, and reputation via a range of print, film, and audio recordings we come to recognize the real historical surprises that the documentary evidence still has to yield.

Recenzje

Penned by Bryan Waterman, the book focuses much of its attention on the four years leading up to the recording of the record in 1977...it offers amazing insight into one of rock's most unsung masterpieces. Montreal Mirror

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Origin Myths, or, Just Trying to Tell a VisionChapter 1: Some Big Set-UpChapter 2: New York SatyriconChapter 3: Stunned into an Electric MetaphorChapter 4: Down in the Scuzz with the Heavy Cult FiguresChapter 5: Punk Is ComingChapter 6: Marquee MoonChapter 7: A Record Should Exhaust You by the Time It's DoneCodaBibliography

O autorze

Bryan Waterman teaches American literature and culture at New York University. His previous books include, with Cyrus R. K. Patell, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York City.