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PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813540542
ISBN-139780813540542
eBay Product ID (ePID)57109975
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameMisfit's Manifesto : the Sociological Memoir of a Rock and Roll Heart
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
SubjectSocial Scientists & Psychologists, Sociology / General, General, Popular Culture
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorDonna Gaines
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-030090
ReviewsIn A Misfit's Manifesto, Donna Gaines has invented a new genre-the socioautobiography, a book of enormous energy, caring, and wisdom that proves, once again, that the personal is political and that women make history, but not under the conditions that they choose. . . . Rarely has journalism possessed such depth of perspective or has sociology been so much fun to read., "A rock & roll memoir from 'Rock, Rock, Rockaway Beach' that perfectly illustrates all of our transitions from unbearable adolescent agony to black-leather-jacket cool--with all the misery, hysterical humor, confusion, and madness that complete the process. A fun read for anyone whose life was saved by rock & roll."--Legs McNeil, co-author of "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk "When a savvy sociologist of culture examines her own life--perhaps a life like no other--the results are astonishing, and as a cultural analysis of recent times, Gaines's autobiography will become a fundamental source. A charming paean to her family and heritage, it's also mercilessly frank, hilarious, terrifying, and oddly uplifting."--Alan Sica, sociologist, Penn State University "Donna Gaines is the soul sister of every woman who's never entertained the notion of buying into anyone else's Rules or brand of 'living' for a New York minute." --Deborah Frost, rock critic/musician "Dr. Donna's no ivory-tower academic; hers is a socio-illogic overview from the underbelly, a coming-of-ageless tale with the electricity and passion of a guitar in full feedback."--Lenny Kaye, guitarist, critic, and author "Donna Gaines has invented a new genre--the socioautobiography, a book of enormous energy, caring, and wisdom. She shines a brilliant light on American culture and folkways." --Paul DiMaggio, sociologist, Princeton University "A Misfit's Manifesto is a strangely beautiful prose work, wonderfully written with a charm and elegance rare among social scientists. These pages are essential reading for all students of life." --Terry Williams, author of" The Cocaine Kids, A magnetic writer who provides an absorbing study in contrasts, Gaines is a keen observer of the sociology of time, place, and pop musical trends.
TitleLeadingA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal781.66092 B 22
Table Of ContentIntroduction Part One: The Kishka King of Brooklyn Rock & Roll radio Out on the street Dirty old man Freedom Rider In my room Three dollars and a prayer The principle of love Part Two: Slugland Valley of Fear Science as a vacation Tattooed Jew Wild in the 'Burbs 53rd & 3rd Life in the Post-Ramones Empire of NYC My best-kept secrets Epilogue
SynopsisDubbed the Margaret Mead of heavy metal, Donna Gaines is a walking, talking oxymoron, a turnpike intellectual. A Misfit's Manifesto is the story of her wild-in-the-burbs odyssey-from overweight yeshiva girl to savvy street-punk sociologist. Isolated, angry, and depressed through most of her adolescence and early adulthood, she found truth and beauty in the least likely places. Wandering the craggy terrain of Rockaway Beach, Queens, Gaines embarked upon a path to enlightenment involving sex, drugs, rock & roll, sociology, cosmetology, True Love, the occult, tattoos, science fiction, pizza, guns, comic books, and surfing-by Web and by sea., Dubbed the Margaret Mead of heavy metal, Donna Gaines is a walking, talking oxymoron, a turnpike intellectual. A Misfit's Manifesto is the story of her wild-in-the-burbs odyssey-from overweight yeshiva girl to savvy street-punk sociologist. Isolated, angry, and depressed through most of her adolescence and early adulthood, she found truth and beauty in the least likely places. Wandering the craggy terrain of Rockaway Beach, Queens, Gaines embarked upon a path to enlightenment involving sex, drugs, rock & roll, sociology, cosmetology, True Love, the occult, tattoos, science fiction, pizza, guns, comic books, and surfing-by Web and by sea. For Gaines, dignity, joy, and communion came not from family, organized religion, or mandatory schooling, but in the sound of doo-wop, surf music, acid rock, then punk, trash metal, and hardcore. "For most of my life," she writes, "music was the only way to connect that wouldn't eventually kill me." Through all the ripped nights of binge-drinking, pill-popping, and nightclubbing, Gaines became an acclaimed author, scholar, and expert on teen suicide. In an age of conformity and censorship, she defends popular culture as a powerful spiritual force-a vibrant, valid connection to God. A meditation on alienation and engagement, this memoir is an outcast's journey into the black-hole sun, where Divine love and light are found-even in Ramones songs. This edition includes a scholarly introduction that considers memoir as a sociological as well as literary genre, as a reflexive means of understanding the self in social context while nurturing a sociological imagination. Social memoir, Gaines argues, illuminates problems like alienation, marginality, addiction, and suicide, while making sociology more user-friendly and public. Now this work of dazzling originality and iconoclasm that has inspired misfits everywhere is an ideal text for classroom use, making complex social theory exciting, timely, and relevant for students., Gaines is a self-described "bourbon-guzzling, pill-popping, penis-addicted, workaholic, tattooed Jew" with a Ph.D. and a pistol permit. "A Misfit's Manifesto" is about living with the contradictions. This is how she did it, and found God in all the unlikely places--like Ramones songs.
LC Classification NumberML423.G17A3 2007
