The Seventies

The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock, black action films and gay male subcultures as well as including queer rereadings of cultural phenomena, examinations of clothing and seventies bodies, and an essay on the meaning of sound in the seventies.

Shelton Waldrep is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. He is co-author of Insidethe Mouse (1995).

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