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Bohemians: A Graphic History
Paul Buhle
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Description for Bohemians: A Graphic History
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The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here revisit the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multiracial and radical jazz and dance worlds, and the West Coast, Southern, and Midwest bohemias of America, among other ... Read more
The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here revisit the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multiracial and radical jazz and dance worlds, and the West Coast, Southern, and Midwest bohemias of America, among other ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781682616
SKU
V9781781682616
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99-1
About Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle retired from Brown University and Providence, Rhode Island in 2009, to Madison, Wisconsin and full-time work editing comics. His many books include the Verso volumes Marxism in the United States (third edition, 2013), Wobblies!, and the authorized biography of C.L.R. James, The Artist as Revolutionary. David Berger was born and raised first in Brooklyn and then in ... Read more
Reviews for Bohemians: A Graphic History
Excavates an essential part of American history ... and does so with style, great graphics, and no punches pulled.
Luc Sante The excitement and inspiration of their creative and courageous work is brilliantlycaptured in this wonderful graphic history.
Noam Chomsky Ingenious in its conception and brilliant in execution. It is urgently necessary for our times: read this book ... Read more
Luc Sante The excitement and inspiration of their creative and courageous work is brilliantlycaptured in this wonderful graphic history.
Noam Chomsky Ingenious in its conception and brilliant in execution. It is urgently necessary for our times: read this book ... Read more