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Giamo, Benedict F. "On the Bowery: Symbolic Action in American Culture and Subculture," Emory University, December 1987. Advisor: Peter W. Dowell (2, 12, 3)
This dissertation is concerned with the historical and contemporary relationship between American culture and American subculture. The latter domain is particularized in the New York Bowery which became established as a subcultural urban place and theme during the late nineteenth century. From that period onward, the Bowery, and its characterization as skid row, has forced among certain representatives of culture a confrontation with the most extreme embodiment of urban poverty yet to be encountered in American historical development. The dialectic between American subculture and American culture, stimulated by the historical processes of economic reorganization and by the visible opposition between the conditions of poverty and affluence in the great metropolis, has been accompanied by the symbolic systems of critical realism and mystification.
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