The downtown avant-garde overlapped temporally with the mass pop culture moment

Evidence

Three days later the Beatles played Shea Stadium. (Harry Smith and Rosebud managed to crash the gate. I did not.) Three days after that, a few miles away, Dylan appeared at the Forest Hills tennis stadium. (That very night Adrian and the Hatreds played live on Bob Fass’s WBAI show Radio Unnameable.) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 747

Categorization

• XREF: The juxtaposition of the underground scene with the Beatles-at-Shea and Dylan pop moments speaks directly to the book’s thesis about how scenes become markets.