{"product_id":"marquee-moon-9781441186058","title":"Marquee Moon","description":"Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs an awning with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB \u0026amp; OMFUG which, he tells them, stands for \"Country Bluegrass and Blues \u0026amp; Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers.\" That's exactly the sort of stuff they play, they lie, somehow managing to get a gig out of him. After the first show their band, Television, lands a regular string of Sundays. By the end of the year a scene has developed that includes Tom Verlaine's new love interest, a poet-turned rock chanteuse named Patti Smith. American punk rock is born. Bryan Waterman peels back the layers of this origin myth and, assembling a rich historical archive, situates Marquee Moon in a broader cultural history of SoHo and the East Village. As Waterman traces the downtown scene's influences, public image, and reputation via a range of print, film, and audio recordings we come to recognize the real historical surprises that the documentary evidence still has to yield and come to a new appreciation of this quintessential album of the New York City night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBryan Waterman teaches American literature and culture at New York University. His previous books include, with Cyrus R. K. Patell, \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York City\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626597978386,"sku":"9781441186058","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe3775d3-9cf1-477f-b939-309ad7162fe5.jpg?v=1732662575","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marquee-moon-9781441186058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}