“Demes” and the Decline of the American Underground.
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This last decade has been pretty unkind to the American Underground. It may not be death, but man alive, it is inarguably decline. Two causes immediately spring to mind: the painful rise in rents and the price of “space,” on the one hand, and on the other, the shift from subculture to hyperculture, not just in terms of cultural output but more generally as a social form. Both rent and internet were mentioned by one longtime member of that subterranean culture, Carlos Gonzales (who performs under the name
“Demes” and the Decline of the American Underground.
“Demes” and the Decline of the American…
“Demes” and the Decline of the American Underground.
This last decade has been pretty unkind to the American Underground. It may not be death, but man alive, it is inarguably decline. Two causes immediately spring to mind: the painful rise in rents and the price of “space,” on the one hand, and on the other, the shift from subculture to hyperculture, not just in terms of cultural output but more generally as a social form. Both rent and internet were mentioned by one longtime member of that subterranean culture, Carlos Gonzales (who performs under the name