Beat Punks PB
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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 founding 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, and 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0306809397
ISBN13:9780306809392
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:Da Capo
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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The Beat Generation from most of the way inside
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Victor Bockris has a knack for being around interesting people and his essays and interviews of the Beat Generation celebrities are legendary. This book is cobbled together from those writings. We see Burroughs and Ginsberg, followed by their punk worshippers Patti Smith and Richard Hell, with Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and Robert Mapplethorpe along the way. Beat turns to Punk, and this book comes to market. Interesting bits on the people involved, but you're always left wanting for a bit more.
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