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The Sprawl by Jason Diamond

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The Sprawl

Author
Jason Diamond
Narrator
Peter Lerman
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Publish Date
17 November 2020
Run Time
9 hours 19 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
The arts: general issues, Literature: history and criticism, History of art, Popular culture, Society and culture: general, History, History of the Americas
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For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

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Author
Jason Diamond
Narrator
Peter Lerman
Duration
9 hours 19 minutes
Release Date
17 November 2020
ISBN
9781705272824
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Genre
The arts: general issues, Literature: history and criticism, History of art, Popular culture, Society and culture: general, History, History of the Americas

Synopsis

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

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