Day 3 (Wed, May 11): Ramones, NYC & CBGB’s

For Today:

• Listen: Please Kill Me, Part 1 – The Pioneers of Punk
• Read: Nicholas Rombes, Ramones (33 1/3 Series) (Bloomsbury, 2005), 16-37; 57-64. These pages are edited together as a single PDF.
• Listen: Ramones, Ramones (Sire Records, 1976) – the playlist is embedded below.
• Suggested/Optional: Watch End of the Century, a documentary about the Ramones.
• Due tomorrow, by noon: Post in Discussion #3 – The Ramones.

For Further Reading & Research:

• Please Kill Me, Part 2 – The Punk Invasion (podcast)
• Kembrew McLeod, The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture (Abrams, 2018).
• Steven Lee Beeber, Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (Chicago Review Press, 2006).
• Michael Hamm, “The Ramones’ manager: ‘They were outcasts, outsiders. The smartest people I ever knew’,” The Guardian, 25 April 2016.