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1 online resource (310 pages) illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Introduction : When legend becomes fact -- The lone tenement -- Perception is reality -- Death and taxes -- A global Bronx -- South Bronx surreal -- The paranoid style of South Bronx film -- Conclusion : The river is deep. |
| Summary |
"For decades, the South Bronx was America's 'inner city.' Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins--none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium--proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives--urban crisis and cultural renaissance--have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L'Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Peter L'Official is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban folklore -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- In art.
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. |
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Civilization |
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Manners and customs |
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Urban folklore |
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New York (State) -- New York https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRvQh7864Jh4rDGBFDWc |
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New York (State) -- New York -- Bronx https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRykjyBdtb6CcRwpddDY |
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1900-1999 |
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Art
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South Bronx in representation and ruin |
| Other Form: |
Print version: L'Official, Peter, 1980- Urban legends. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020 9780674238077 (DLC) 2019056425 (OCoLC)1120012563 |
| ISBN |
9780674246485 EPUB |
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0674246489 EPUB |
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9780674246515 PDF |
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0674246519 PDF |
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9780674238077 hardcover |
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0674238079 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/9780674246515 |
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