Teenage Wasteland - Suburbia''s Dead End Kids

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume provides portraits of "rock and roll kids" and analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. It aims to draw new conclusions and to present solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead-end kids.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Gaines, Gaines Donna
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.1998
• EAN: 9780226278728
• ISBN: 978-0-226-27872-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Age groups: children, Urban communities, Age groups: adolescents, Urban communities / city life