Shaky Ground
by Alice Echols
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Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps an alternative history of contemporary American culture, taking on such subjects as hippies, gay/lesbian and women's liberation, disco and the racial politics of music, and artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell and Lenny Kravitz. Echols upends show more many of our bedrock assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, challenging in particular the notions that the '60s represented a total rupture with the past and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change. show lessTags
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Echols' scholarly essays on feminism, the hippie era, disco and more. Fun to compare her popular writing (the Janis Joplin bio) with her academic writing. The academic work isn't too obtuse or off-putting.
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Alice Echols is a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California. A former disco deejay, she is the author of the acclaimed biography of Janis Joplin, Scars of Sweet Paradise, among other works.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 973.923 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- 1953-2001 Lyndon Johnson
- LCC
- E839.4 .E28 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 General
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- Languages
- English, Finnish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
