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Author Echols, Alice.

Title Shaky ground : the '60s and its aftershocks / Alice Echols.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
©2002

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 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  973.923 ECHOLS    Check Shelf
Description x, 303 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-284) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Postwar America and the 1960s : the long, strange trip. Hope and hype in sixties Haight-Ashbury -- The Ike age : rethinking the 1950s -- "We gotta get out of this place" : notes toward a remapping of the sixties -- "Nothing distant about it" : women's liberation and sixties radicalism -- pt. 2. Feminism, sexual freedom, and identity politics. The Dworkinization of Catharine MacKinnon -- "Totally ready to go" : Shulamith Firestone and The dialectic of sex -- The taming of the id : feminist sexual politics, 1968-1983 -- Queer like us? -- "Thousands of men and a few hundred women" : Janis Joplin, sexual ambiguity, and Bohemia -- Gender disobedience, academia, and popular culture -- pt. 3. Turn the beat around. "Shaky ground" : popular music in the disco years -- White faces, black masks -- The refuge of the lions' den : an interview with John Paul Hammond -- "Play that funky music" : an interview with Lenny Kravitz -- "The soul of a Martian" : a conversation with Joni Mitchell.
Subject United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nineteen sixties.
Nineteen seventies.
ISBN 023110670X (acid-free paper)
0231106718 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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