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Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."
The great bohemias of history--Murger's and Charles Baudelaire's 19 th -century Paris, Bloomsbury, the French and German Dadaists, the Surrealists, the Beats, the indie rock scene--were flamboyant and self-enthralled.