"Do You Have a Band?" : Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City / Daniel Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Daniel, 1968- author.

Series:

Columbia scholarship online.

Columbia scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Punk rock music--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Punk rock music.

Punk culture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Punk culture.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem.Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant, and, most surprisingly and complexly, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, John Giorno, and Dennis Cooper, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE. The Fugs Are Coming

TWO. Lou Reed: "In the Beginning Was the Word"

THREE. Proto-Punk and Poetry on St. Mark's Place

FOUR. Richard Hell, Genesis: Grasp, and the Making of the Blank Generation

FIVE. "I Just Got Different Theories": Patti Smith and the New York School of Poetry

SIX. Giorno Poetry Systems

SEVEN. Eileen Myles and the International Fuck Frank O'Hara Movement

EIGHT. "Sit on My Face!": Dennis Cooper, the First Punk Poet

Afterword: People Who Died

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780231162968

0231162960

OCLC:

984651745