Teenage Wasteland Suburbia's Dead End Kids

Name: Teenage Wasteland Suburbia's Dead End Kids
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ISBN: 9780226278728

ISBN-10: 0226278727

ISBN-13: 9780226278728

Edition: 1998

Authors: Donna Gaines

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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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.77" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



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