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portada St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.34 kg.
ISBN13
9780393353303
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

Ada Calhoun (Author) · W. W. Norton & Company · Paperback

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street - Calhoun, Ada

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Synopsis "St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street "

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street--from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's pear orchard to today's hipster playground--organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared "St. Marks is dead."In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants' haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids--but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.

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