Title: Shaky Ground
First published: 2002
Description: 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.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Political culture, Radicalism, Popular culture, Nineteen seventies, Nineteen sixties, Social conditions, Counterculture, Popular culture, united states, United states, history, 1961-1969, United states, social conditions, 1960-, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, United states, history, Histoire, Conditions sociales, Politique et gouvernement, Contre-culture, Radicalisme, Culture populaire, Années soixante (Vingtième siècle), Années soixante-dix (Vingtième siècle)
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 1961-1969, 1945-1989, 1960-1980
LC classification: E839.4 .E28 2002