Editorial Reviews
Andy Warhol
"Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer....He types like Van Cliburn plays the piano. He's always tape recording and taking pictures. I can't keep up with him."
Book Description
A Da Capo Original: A unique look at New York's legendary underground culture from the 1950s Beat Generation through the 1970s Punk explosion and right into the 1990s.
Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The internationally acclaimed biographer Bockris was there as a witness, friend, collaborator, and co-conspirator. Some of the stars were founder members of Beat or Punk, others were just passing through. But all of them--rockers, rebels, artists, and intellectuals--revealed more to Bockris than they did to any other writer: Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Terry Southern, Martin Amis, Susan Sontag. Bockris's conclusion--that Punk owed the Beats a big debt and that the Beats were in turn re-animated by the Punks--is argued from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it, and who loved every minute of it.
Beat Punks
Beat Punks,Victor Bockris,Da Capo Press,0306809397,American - General,Beat generation,Genres & Styles - Punk,New York,New York (State),Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - Counter Culture,Popular Culture - General,Punk culture,Punk rock music,Social Science,Sociology
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