Title Graffiti lives : beyond the tag in New York's urban underground / Gregory J. Snyder

Published New York : New York University Press, [2009] ©2009

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Description xii, 241 pages ; 24 cm Series Alternative criminology series Alternative criminology series. Contents 1. Getting In -- Starting the Blackbook -- A Brief History of Graffiti Writing -- Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows -- 2. Getting Up -- VERT: First Contact -- Writer's 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 -- 3. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Graffiti -- New York (State) -- New York. Subculture -- New York (State) -- New York. Deviant behavior -- New York (State) -- New York. SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091434 LC no. 2008030902 ISBN 9780814740453 cloth alkaline paper 0814740456 cloth alkaline paper

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