The Velvets and the Underground 1960-1970

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Join writers Lucy Sante and Gillian McCain for a deep dive into the countercultural explosion that reshaped American art, music, and literature. Sante, legendary chronicler of New York’s urban underbelly, joins McCain, co-author of the definitive oral history of punk Please Kill Me , to examine the seismic impact of The Velvet Underground and the downtown scene they inhabited. Together, they will trace the lineage of the 1960s underground, exploring how raw noise, avant-garde experimentation,

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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

121 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511

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