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BANG: A PRIMER ON RUSSIAN ROCK, FROM GORKY PARK TO VIKTOR TSOI

Daniel Bowen·April 22, 2020

Russia may seem like some distant, ominous land—largely due to unrelenting Cold War propaganda—but the popular music of...

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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