ISBN:
1282945106
,
9780195393132
,
9780199792382
,
9781282945104
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 386 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version A Nation of Outsiders
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Counterculture History 20th century
;
Social psychology History 20th century
;
Dissenters History 20th century
;
Middle class History 20th century
;
Whites Social conditions 20th century
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
USA
;
Massenkultur
;
Weiße
;
Mittelstand
;
Gegenkultur
;
Sozialpsychologie
;
Geschichte
;
United States Social life and customs 20th century
Abstract:
At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions enabled some middle-class whites to cut free of their own histories and identify with those who, while lacking economic, political, or social privilege, seemed to possess instead vital cultural resources and a depth of feeling not found in "grey flannel" America. In this wide-ranging and vivid
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Outsiders and Rebels; PART I: Learning to Love Outsiders; 1 Lost Children of Plenty: Growing Up as Rebellion; 2 Rebel Music: Minstrelsy, Rock and Roll, and Beat Writing; 3 Black as Folk: The Folk Music Revival, the Civil Rights Movement, and Bob Dylan; 4 Rebels on the Right: Conservatives as Outsiders in Liberal America; PART II: Romance in Action; 5 New White Negroes in Action: Students for a Democratic Society, the Economic Research and Action Project, and Freedom Summer; 6 Too Much Love: Black Power and the Search for Other Outsiders
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Making of Christian Countercultures: God's Outsiders from the Jesus People to Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority8 Rescue: Christian Outsiders in Action in the Anti-Abortion Movement; Conclusion: The Cost of Rebellion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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