Acknowledgements Introduction: Origin Myths, or, Just Trying to Tell a Vision Chapter 1: Some Big Set-Up Chapter 2: New York Satyricon Chapter 3: Stunned into an Electric Metaphor Chapter 4: Down in the Scuzz with the Heavy Cult Figures Chapter 5: Punk Is Coming Chapter 6: Marquee Moon Chapter 7: A Record Should Exhaust You by the Time It's Done Coda Bibliography
A thoroughly researched study of the origins of the New York City punk scene, focusing on Television and their extraordinary debut record.
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.
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*
Waterman [has done] extensive research, culling from NYU's archive
of Richard Hell's papers, rock journalist reviews from the era
(Christgau, Bangs, Kent, et al.), and extensive interviews, making
sure to maintain the composure of an academic thesis, and not a fan
boy rag... what happens when you pull back all the layers of
flashbacks and reminiscence is an extensive true story that is
still interesting, and echoes long down the volleys of rock
history.
*Crawdaddy!*
[Waterman's book] will delight both Television fans and nostalgists
of seventies punk-era New York.
*The East Village Local*
The New York punk scene of the 1970s doesn’t lack for documentation
… That Bryan Waterman still finds something new to say is
impressive enough, but he expertly expands the context for
Television’s debut album and for the Bowery punk movement within
New York’s larger arts scene. At more than 200 pages, it’s one of
the longest titles in the series, but each page seems to contain
some new idea or discovery.
*Pitchfork*
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