{"product_id":"televisions-marquee-moon-by-bryan-waterman-9781441186058","title":"Television's Marquee Moon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBryan Waterman peels back the layers of this origin myth and, assembling a rich historical archive, situates \u003cem\u003eMarquee Moon\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455746982124,"sku":"9781441186058","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71OCiG-rpWL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774795864","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/televisions-marquee-moon-by-bryan-waterman-9781441186058","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}