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The seventies
Shelton Waldrep
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Overview
The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock, black action films and gay male subcultures as well as including queer rereadings of cultural phenomena, examinations of clothing and seventies bodies, and an essay on the meaning of sound in the seventies.
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The 1970s rather than the 60s is the defining decade of millennial anxieties, according to Waldrepp (English, U. of Southern Maine). Fourteen essays by academics, journalists, and KC of KC & the Sunshine Band re/define the 70s through commentary on its New Journalism, movements (from the Black Panthers to Jonestown), pop culture genres, fashion as "compulsive artifice," the gay 70s, and the era's music. Includes b&w illustrations of 1970s fashions (some being recycled today), gender-bending stars David Bowie and Sandra Bernhard, and films such as . Indexed solely by proper name. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 20, 2000
Publisher
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780415925341