scholarly journals The Velvet Underground Emerges

PLoS Biology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e1001751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland G. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Velvet Underground

Telluride and After

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
B. Ruby Rich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Kenneth Branagh ◽  
Todd Haynes ◽  
Telluride Film ◽  
Velvet Underground ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time

FQ editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich reports from the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival. Unlike most of its peer festivals, Telluride opted not to hold a virtual edition in 2020, a decision entirely in keeping with its emphasis on the tactile and experiential aspects of cinema, and which made its return in 2021 all the more giddy for first-time attendees and long-term devotees alike. Rich reviews the many festival highlights, from Jane Campion’s reinvention of the Western in The Power of the Dog to Todd Haynes’ archival documentary The Velvet Underground. Childhood takes center stage in new films from Céline Sciamma and Kenneth Branagh while misunderstood masculinity emerges as a theme in Michael Pearce’s Encounter, Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero, and Mike Mills’s C’mon C’mon. Including a coda on the New York Film Festival, Rich concludes that the masterful riches of the two festivals augur well for the fall 2021 season.

Lou Reed: “In the Beginning Was the Word”

2017 ◽  
pp. 40-69
Author(s):  
Daniel Kane
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Andy Warhol ◽  
New York School ◽  
Syracuse University ◽  
Velvet Underground ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Drag Queens

This chapter analyzes the ways in which Lou Reed’s vision of himself as a writer informed his music and lyrics for the Velvet Underground and his solo career. I track how Reed’s engagement with Andy Warhol and the New York School of poets complicated and troubled his otherwise relatively traditional views of the Poet as oracular figure. The chapter pays special attention to Reed’s stories and poems published in his collegiate-era mimeographed journal Lonely Woman Quarterly, analyzing how these works ultimately fed into Reed’s music and lyrics in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Mixing a world-weary, vernacular tone with bursts of inspired disjunction, or interrupting a straightforward narrative with Joycean free-association, Reed used the journal to sketch the personae that were to prove obstinate presences throughout his career. Reed’s porn-freaks, alcoholics, suburbanite wannabees, drag queens, hustlers, and junkies all got their start at Syracuse University, accompanying Reed on his journey from Lewis to Louis to Luis and, ultimately, Lou.

scholarly journals Jews, punk and the Holocaust: from the Velvet Underground to the Ramones – the Jewish-American story

Popular Music ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON STRATTON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Radical Reaction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Velvet Underground ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Disproportionate Number ◽  
The Impact

Punk is usually thought of as a radical reaction to local circumstances. This article argues that, while this may be the case, punk's celebration of nihilism should also be understood as an expression of the acknowledgement of the cultural trauma that was, in the late 1970s, becoming known as the Holocaust. This article identifies the disproportionate number of Jews who helped in the development of the American punk phenomenon through the late 1960s and 1970s. However, the effects of the impact of the cultural trauma of the Holocaust were not confined to Jews. The shock that apparently civilised Europeans could engage in genocidal acts against groups of people wholly or partially thought of by most Europeans as European undermined the certainties of post-Enlightenment modernity and contributed fundamentally to the sense of unsettlement of morals and ethics which characterises the experience of postmodernity. Punk marks a critical cultural moment in that transformation. In this article the focus is on punk in the United States.

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