The Mudd Club

The Mudd Club
Author: Richard Boch
Publsiher: Feral House
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781627310581

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"I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standing outside, staring at the crowd, it was "out there" versus "in here" and I was on the inside. The Mudd Club was filled with the famous and soon- to- be famous, along with an eclectic core of Mudd regulars who gave the place its identity. Everyone from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg to Johnny Rotten, The Hell's Angels, and John Belushi: passing through, passing out, and some, passing on. Marianne Faithful and Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, and even Kenneth Anger— just a few of the names that stepped on stage. No Wave and Post- Punk artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers living in a nighttime world on the cusp of two decades. This book is a cornucopia of memories and images, and how this famed wicked downtown club attained the status of midtown and uptown. There was nothing else like it— I met everyone, and the job quickly defined me. I thought I could handle it, and for a while, I did. "—Richard Boch

Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club

Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club
Author: Bernard Gendron
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0226287378

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When and how did pop music earn so much cultural capital? This text investigates five key moments when popular music and avant-garde art transgressed the rigid boundaries separating high and low culture to form friendly alliances.

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980 1983

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor  1980   1983
Author: Tim Lawrence
Publsiher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2016-09-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780822373926

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As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

The Mud Club

The Mud Club
Author: Randy Powell
Publsiher: Scholastic Incorporated
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Language arts (Secondary)
ISBN: 043957918X

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Mudd in Your Eye

Mudd in Your Eye
Author: Jerry Oltion
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2000-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780743420327

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After millennia of warfare, the planets Prastor and Distrel may have finally achieved a lasting peace. Investigating on behalf of the Federation, Captain Kirk is shocked to find out that the architect of the peace is none other than that notorious con artist, Harcourt Fenton Mudd! Mudd claims to be a changed man, but Kirk has his doubts. He knows that Mudd has to be running some sort of scam, but what is he up to? Kirk must find out soon--before the peace gives way to unending war.

Maripolarama

Maripolarama
Author: Maripol
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 1576872726

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From celebrated stylist Maripol this ultimate 'who's who' of the early 80s art, music and fashion scenes in downtown New York captures highly stylish, utterly inspiring and ultra vivid polaroid. As an image maker and stylist for Madonna during her 'Like a Virgin' days, Maripol relentlessly documented the movers and shakers of the early 80s through the lens of her instant Polaroid SX-70. This collection is for those with long memories and vast vinyl collections and also for the people who weren't there to see it firsthand.

The Last Party

The Last Party
Author: Anthony Haden-Guest
Publsiher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781497695559

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A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of New York City’s most famous and exclusive nightclub In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were among the nightly assortment of A-list celebrity regulars consorting with New York’s young, wild, and beautiful. Studio 54 was a place where almost nothing was taboo, from nonstop dancing and drinking beneath the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and sex in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities taking place in the office of the studio’s flamboyant co-owner Steve Rubell. Author Anthony Haden-Guest was there on opening night in 1977 and over the next decade spent many late nights and early mornings basking in the strobe-lit wonder. But The Last Party is much more than a fascinating account of the scandals, celebrities, crimes, and extreme excesses encouraged within the notorious Manhattan nightspot. Haden-Guest brings an entire era of big-city glitz and unapologetic hedonism to breathtaking life, recalling a vibrant New York night world at once exhilarating and dangerous before the terrible, sobering dawn of the age of AIDS.

The Slynx

The Slynx
Author: Tatyana Tolstaya
Publsiher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781681371733

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“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond. Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.