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A nation of outsiders : how the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America /
At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Outsiders and rebels
- Learning to love outsiders. Lost children of plenty: growing up as rebellion
- Rebel music: minstrelsy, rock and roll, and beat writing
- Black as folk: the folk music revival, the civil rights movement, and Bob Dylan
- Rebels on the right: conservatives as outsiders in liberal America
- Romance in action. New white negroes in action: students for a democratic society, the economic research and action project, and freedom summer
- Too much love: black power and the search for other outsiders
- The making of Christian coutercultures: God's outsiders from the Jesus People to Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority
- Rescue: Christian outsiders in action in the anti-abortion movement
- Conclusion: the cost of rebellion.