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Shaky Ground

Alice Echols

2002303 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Columbia University Press · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9780231106702
  • 2002Columbia University Press · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780231502559

Echols upends many of our bedrock assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, particularly the notion that the '60s represented a total rupture and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change. In far-ranging essays on hippies, gay/lesbian and women's liberation, disco and the racial politics of music, and musicians as diverse as Joni Mitchell and Lenny Kravitz, this maverick thinker maps an alternative history of American culture from the '50s through the '90s.

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