Teenage Wasteland : Suburbia's Dead End Kids

by Gaines, Donna

• ISBN13: 9780060974770
• ISBN10: 006097477X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-03
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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

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

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