Graffiti Lives Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground

Name: Graffiti Lives Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground
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ISBN: 9780814740460

ISBN-10: 0814740464

ISBN-13: 9780814740460

Edition: 2011

Authors: Gregory J. Snyder

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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Gregory J. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baruch College, City University of New York.



Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction



Getting In


Starting the Blackbook


A Brief History of Graffiti Writing


Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows



Getting up


VERT: First Contact


Writers Block: Blackbook in the Streets


Welcome to ESPO Land


ESPO: Illustrating Struggle


Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan


A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour


Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots


Style Points: ESPO s Brooklyn Mural


Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP


AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self


AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel


The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO s Public Surface Announcement



Getting Out


Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career


Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear


Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance


Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop


Gabe Banner: Market Wise


ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club


CODA: Graffiti for Life


Appendix: The New Ethnography


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author