scholarly articles on the VU?

brmc · Post by **brmc** » 28 Jan 2007 04:21

I am writing my thesis on the velvets and have been having a difficult time locating any secondary sources of scholarly quality. Can anyone led me in the right direction?
thanks

MJG196 · Post by **MJG196** » 28 Jan 2007 07:51

There is a series of books that does this sort of thing. They did a Smiths book as well. I KNOW they did a VU one...

tigeir · Post by **tigeir** » 28 Jan 2007 09:49

The best I have is "The Velvet Underground Companion: Four Decades of Commentary" edited by Albin Zak III although only one article has citations.

http://www.books.google.com/books?vid=I ... rground%22

(could this be the book mg196?)

Although if there is a specific topic you are considering then there are many papers which refer to the VU in a limited manner.

What context are you considering them in?

Rob

iaredatsun · Post by **iaredatsun** » 28 Jan 2007 13:15

From my memory that book has one article which is academic. I remember it being a cultural studies analysis of Sister Ray. It's called 'Sister Ray - the Pleasures of a Musical Text' by Jeff Schwartz. The article used to be online at a university in Wisconscin and now seem to be gone but I just found that the article is also cited in 'Heroin - Use Gender and Effect in Rock Subcultures' which you might also want to see and is here:

http://www.echo.ucla.edu/volume1-issue1 ... ticle.html

MJG196 · Post by **MJG196** » 28 Jan 2007 19:10

No, I just remembered - it is the "33 1/3" series:

GroovyMusic · Post by **GroovyMusic** » 28 Jan 2007 19:58

Somebody wrote a scholarly paper on Sister Ray and posted it online...I can't find the link right now

tigeir · Post by **tigeir** » 28 Jan 2007 22:20

If anyone has the inclination the whole paper is available at Google Books you just need to search for each page individually...a bit of a chore. You can prevent Google overriding the right click menu in your (decent) browser to save the page images.

The quality is poor but readable. I've not been able to find the article anywhere else online, it was at:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ehansen/VU/sisray.html
unfortunately I've chosen maintenance time to check so it may still be worth trying the link.

Rob

arjan · Post by **arjan** » 29 Jan 2007 12:55

GroovyMusic wrote:Somebody wrote a scholarly paper on Sister Ray and posted it online...I can't find the link right now

The article seems to have been take onffline (just visited the author's page, where it used to be) but it is also in Zak's book.

discoscrudos · Post by **discoscrudos** » 29 Jan 2007 15:14

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=es ... squeda&lr=

discoscrudos · Post by **discoscrudos** » 29 Jan 2007 15:15

Better in english...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en ... squeda&lr=