Introducing the Seventies; Re/Defining the Seventies; 1: Setting up the Seventies; 2: The Wayne's Worlding of America; 3: Jonestown; Identifying Genres; 4: Identity, Value, and the Work of Genre; 5: Trudging through the Glitter Trenches; Fashioning the Body; 6: These Boots Were Made for Walkin'; 7: State of Grace; Queering the Seventies; 8: Domesticating the Enemy; 9: The Way We Were; 10: The Returns of Cleopatra Jones; 11: How to Do Things with Sound; Talking Music; 12: The Dancing Machine; 13: Twenty Years after Tonight; 14: Self Portrait No. 25
Shelton Waldrep is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. He is co-author of Insidethe Mouse (1995).
"The Seventies offers fascinating insight into the significance of
a truly weird era using the critical tools of late-'90s cultural
theory. But fear not-this is academic in scope, but far from stodgy
in execution. With essays taking on the Black Panthers, glam rock,
porno chic, suburbia, Jonestown, blaxploitation flicks, '70s body
types and more, these scholars boldly straddle the highs and lows
of American culture, unafraid to wallow in a little "trash."
Refreshingly, The Seventies steers clear of the shallow waters
typically traveled by most purveyors of retro-hell, allowing
Eldridge Cleaver, David Cassidy and Patty Hearst to bump booties
with Karl Marx, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze." -- Tucson
Weekly
"If examinations of the "subversive, democratizing" effects of
polyester leisure suits, the "trisexual self-reflexivity" of glam
rockers The New York Dolls, or the "queer heroine" status of black
action queen Cleopatra Jones strike you as intriguingly offbeat,
this collection is for you." -- Tucson Weekly
"...daring..." -- Cultural Polemics
"Waldrep has collected 14 essays that aim to contest the
romanticizing impulse by exploring the contemporary political and
cultural meaning in such icongraphic cultural and artistic
artifacts as the rock band New York Dolls, the TV show Bewitched,
the movie Shaft and disco music. . . . illuminating essays show
that the decade was rich with cultural meaning." -- Publisher's
Weekly, November 15, 1999
"The Seventies offers fascinating insight into the significance of
a truly weird era using the critical tools of late-'90s cultural
theory. But fear not-this is academic in scope, but far from stodgy
in execution. With essays taking on the Black Panthers, glam rock,
porno chic, suburbia, Jonestown, blaxploitation flicks, '70s body
types and more, these scholars boldly straddle the highs and lows
of American culture, unafraid to wallow in a little "trash."
Refreshingly, The Seventies steers clear of the shallow waters
typically traveled by most purveyors of retro-hell, allowing
Eldridge Cleaver, David Cassidy and Patty Hearst to bump booties
with Karl Marx, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze." -- Tucson
Weekly
"The strongest essays... combine a close attention to specific
textual detail with a broad sense of cultural signifigance and a
willingness to scrap vague generalizations about "the seventies"
for more incisive cultural critcism. These essays manage to avoid
the banality of nostalgic fascination.." Daniel Wickberg,
University of Texas."
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