With luck, no one would pay his or her tab, and only a sucker would eat the chickpeas. If all the hipsters omitted from these pages were gathered together, they could fill the back room of Max’s Kansas City from now until the next Velvet Underground reunion. Take comfort that you are in good company. Hip is an elusive thing, and sometimes must be its own reward. Perhaps the hip guy you knew in high school or wished you knew at the needle exchange is not in here, either. Somehow your hang time at the Six Gallery in North Beach or Northsix in Williamsburg, your matted coif or ironic eyeglasses, your collection of whitelabel vinyl or Bukowski first editions, fell through one of the many holes in this book. If it is not there (and let’s face it, what are the chances?), my apologies. He proper way to read this book, of course, is from the back, checking to see if your name is in the index. If you weren’t a journalist you’d never be invited to anything hip. Much love and gratitude to Risa and Jordan, who endured neglect from their husband and father while I was busy writing about neglectful husbands and fathers. My Times colleagues, especially Barbara Graustark, kindly overlooked the perpetual bags under my eyes. Donna Ranieri gathered the photographs we should all live within their world.
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Jordan Leland helpfully reminded me that I was full of shit. Hip friends John Capouya, Bill Adler, Phil Everson, Greg Milner, Drew Keller (my roughneck peeps upstate) and Trent Gegax generously put their hands on all or parts of the manuscript. My editor, Dan Halpern, helped craft it, providing sage counsel and a poet’s touch. My agent, Paul Bresnick, thought there should be a book on the history of hip. Shout outs For the accomplices who made this book possible, many thanks, condolences and state immunity are in order. “It’s Like Punk Rock, But a Car”: Hip Sells Outĭo Geeks Dream of HTML Sheep? A Digressive Journey Through Digital HipĮverybody’s Hip: Superficial Reflections on the White CaucasianĪbout the Author Praise Cover Copyright About the Publisher Where the Ladies At? Rebel Girls, Riot Grrrls and the Revenge on the Mother The World Is a Ghetto: Blacks, Jews and BluesĬriminally Hip: Outlaws, Gangsters, Players, Hustlers Hip Has Three Fingers: The Miseducation of Bugs Bunny The Tricksters: Signifying Monkeys and Other Hip Engines of Progress The Golden Age of Hip, Part 1: Bebop, Cool Jazz and the Cold War Would a Hipster Hit a Lady? Pulp Fiction, Film Noir and Gangsta Rap My Black/White Roots: Jazz, the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance The O.G.’s: Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman In the Beginning There Was Rhythm: Slavery, Minstrelsy and the Blues Introduction: What Is Hip? Superficial Reflections on America