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  title info:
    title: Urban legends
    sub title: the South Bronx in representation and ruin
  name:
    name part: L'Official, Peter
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 of 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. L'Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark's carvings of abandoned buildings with the city's trompe l'oeil decals program, examines the centrality of the Bronx's infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films, offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe and charts the emergence of a "global Bronx" as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.
  table of contents: Introduction: When legend becomes fact -- The lone tenement -- Seeing is believing: Gordon Matta-Clark and municipal trompe l'oeil -- Death and taxes: photographing the South Bronx, 1979- -- A global Bronx: fashion moda international -- South Bronx surreal: infrastructure, information, and identity in the literary South Bronx -- Charlotte's web: race, place, and the new paranoid style of South Bronx film -- Conclusion: The river is deep.
  note: Peter L'Official.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    topic: Urban folklore
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    geographic: Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: In art
  subject:
    geographic: Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: F128.68.B8 L64 2020
  classification: 974.7/275
  identifier: 9780674238077
  identifier: 0674238079
  identifier: 2019056425
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200116
    record change date: 20201020070552.0
    record identifier: in00004150460