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Cleveland and Northeast Ohio's Overlooked Historical Contributions to Underground, Punk, and Alternative Music

Poritsky, Marc I
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1401293444

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2014, Master of Music, University of Akron, Music-History and Literature.
ABSTRACT Further elucidation of Northeast Ohios musical endeavors are necessary to expand upon the fact that its equally as vital as other metropolitan centers with fertile underground music scenes such as New York City and London from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s. Although both of those cities contained many prototypical punks and artists, Cleveland and Northeast Ohio shared rare, sheltered yet sophisticated, artistically supported and substantially influential musical underpinnings. And although there really wasnt what one might call a scene as in a substantial supportive alternative music community, there were many notable and important personalities that emerged and continue to this day to be important countercultural figures. When speaking of the lack of proper elucidation of the Northeast Ohio scene, it is necessary to look to the fact that there are only a handful of well-written books on the Punk and counterculture movements that ever really gave Cleveland and Northeast Ohio its cultural due. Notably these books have come to light in the past 25 years or so: Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, and From The Velvets To The Voidoids and Babylons Burning, both by Clinton Heylin. Only these three books and a handful of others can stand as a testament to what has been written about the early Cleveland and Northeast Ohio musical environment. Cleveland and Northeast Ohio have had written exposure in a variety of books, magazines and fanzines homemade printed copy booklets Xeroxed in limited runs by fans; however, an investigation of the facts and people who participated in the early scene is in need of being further illuminated. Fully researching the subject, examining many countless books, articles, websites, magazines and other ephemera, it is apparent that Cleveland and Northeast Ohio has been neglected when academically speaking about its historical music.
Brooks Toliver, Dr. (Advisor)
Michele Mills, Dr. (Advisor)
56 p.
History; Modern History; Music; Music Education; Performing Arts; Regional Studies
Cleveland,Ohio, Northeast Ohio, Punk, Alternative, Underground, Music, Akron, Kent, Ohio Kent State, d a levy, Albert Ayler, Velvet Underground,

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  • Poritsky, M. I. (2014). Cleveland and Northeast Ohio's Overlooked Historical Contributions to Underground, Punk, and Alternative Music [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1401293444

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Poritsky, Marc. Cleveland and Northeast Ohio's Overlooked Historical Contributions to Underground, Punk, and Alternative Music. 2014. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1401293444.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Poritsky, Marc. "Cleveland and Northeast Ohio's Overlooked Historical Contributions to Underground, Punk, and Alternative Music." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1401293444

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