Teenage Wasteland
Suburbia’s Dead End Kids
9780226278728
Teenage Wasteland
Suburbia’s Dead End Kids
Teenage Wasteland provides memorable portraits of "rock and roll kids" and shrewd analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. A powerful indictment of the often manipulative media coverage of youth crises and so-called alternative programs designed to help "troubled" teens, Teenage Wasteland draws new conclusions and presents solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia’s dead end kids.
"A powerful book."—Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times Book Review
"[Gaines] sheds light on a poorly understood world and raises compelling questions about what society might do to help this alienated group of young people."—Ann Grimes, Washington Post Book World
"There is no comparable study of teenage suburban culture . . . and very few ethnographic inquiries written with anything like Gaines’s native gusto or her luminous eye for detail."—Andrew Ross, Transition
"An outstanding case study. . . . Gaines shows how teens engage in cultural production and how such social agency is affected by economic transformations and institutional interventions."—Richard Lachman, Contemporary Sociology
"The best book on contemporary youth culture."—Rolling Stone
"A powerful book."—Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times Book Review
"[Gaines] sheds light on a poorly understood world and raises compelling questions about what society might do to help this alienated group of young people."—Ann Grimes, Washington Post Book World
"There is no comparable study of teenage suburban culture . . . and very few ethnographic inquiries written with anything like Gaines’s native gusto or her luminous eye for detail."—Andrew Ross, Transition
"An outstanding case study. . . . Gaines shows how teens engage in cultural production and how such social agency is affected by economic transformations and institutional interventions."—Richard Lachman, Contemporary Sociology
"The best book on contemporary youth culture."—Rolling Stone
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Kids in the Basement
Ave of Dreams
Children of ZOSO
Gimmie Shelter
Us and Them
The Rock
Disposable Heroes
This Is Religion I
This Is Religion II
Wild in the ’Burbs
The End
Afterword: Slamming Towards the Millennium
Introduction
The Kids in the Basement
Ave of Dreams
Children of ZOSO
Gimmie Shelter
Us and Them
The Rock
Disposable Heroes
This Is Religion I
This Is Religion II
Wild in the ’Burbs
The End
Afterword: Slamming Towards the Millennium
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