This super long Marquee Moon research paper for my contemporary poetry course ended up being about:
1) Punk as a commercial rebranding of the warholian avant-garde
2) Punk as a continuation of Whitman’s, and later the Beat’s urban pastoral
3) That Marquee Moon is without a doubt a punk record, and how the contemporary argument over “how punk Television really was to begin with” is stupid.
4) That while Television’s esteemed place in the canon is deserved, it is in no way the primordial end-all-be-all that is often made out to be. (Neither is Horses or anything else)
5) That the scene itself, if you could even call it that, was imperfect but ultimately romanticized by later generations. Romanticization is cyclical though, and as such occurred just as much then as it does now.
It’s kind of about revisionist history more than anything..
Posted December 13, 2011 at 5:26am
