Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids

by Gaines, Donna

• ISBN13: 9780226278728
• ISBN10: 0226278727
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

Teenage Wastelandprovides 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 Wastelanddraws 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	vii
Introduction	1	(14)
The Kids in the Basement	15	(24)
Ave of Dreams	39	(16)
Children of ZOSO	55	(18)
Gimme Shelter	73	(16)
Us and Them	89	(26)
The Rock	115	(28)
Disposable Heroes	143	(32)
This Is Religion I	175	(18)
This Is Religion II	193	(24)
Wild in the 'Burbs	217	(18)
The End	235	(28)
Afterword: Slamming Towards the Millennium	263