ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |15 pages

Introducing the Seventies

part |60 pages

Re/Defining the Seventies

chapter 1|22 pages

Setting up the Seventies

Black Panthers, New Journalism, and the Rewriting of the Sixties

chapter 2|13 pages

The Wayne's Worlding of America

Performing the Seventies in the Nineties

chapter 3|22 pages

Jonestown

Reflections on a Seventies Monument

part |75 pages

Identifying Genres

chapter 4|45 pages

Identity, Value, and the Work of Genre

Black Action Films

chapter 5|27 pages

Trudging through the Glitter Trenches

The Case of the New York Dolls

part |40 pages

Fashioning the Body

chapter 6|21 pages

"These Boots Were Made for Walkin'"

Fashion as "Compulsive Artifice"

chapter 7|16 pages

State of Grace

American Vogue in the Seventies

part |78 pages

Queering the Seventies

chapter 8|9 pages

Domesticating the Enemy

Bewitched and the Seventies Sitcom (For Elizabeth Montgomery)

chapter 9|19 pages

The Way We Were

Remembering the Gay Seventies

chapter 11|22 pages

How to Do Things with Sound

part |37 pages

Talking Music

chapter 12|9 pages

The Dancing Machine

An Oral History

chapter 13|10 pages

Twenty Years after Tonight

An Interview with KC

chapter 14|15 pages

Self Portrait No. 25