Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids (Univ of Chicago PR)

Author/Contributor(s):	Gaines, Donna
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	04/28/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.

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