Beginning to See the Light
by Willis, EllenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-07-02
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary
From the New Yorker's inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock 'n' roll, sexuality, and above all, freedom. Here Ellen Willis assuredly captures the thrill of music, the disdain of authoritarian culture, and the rebellious spirit of the '60s and '70s.
Author Biography
Ellen Willis (1941-2006) was the first pop music critic for The New Yorker and an editor and columnist at the Village Voice. A groundbreaking radical leftist author and thinker, she contributed to numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and The Nation, and was the founder of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. Among her other books are the collections Out of the Vinyl Deeps and No More Nice Girls, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Introduction to the Second Edition | p. xxiii |
| Out of the Vinyl Deeps | |
| Dylan | p. 3 |
| You Can't Go Down Home Again | p. 26 |
| The Who Sell | p. 35 |
| Elvis in Las Vegas | p. 41 |
| Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning | p. 45 |
| See America First: Easy Rider and Alice's Restaurant | p. 51 |
| Janis Joplin | p. 61 |
| Hard to Swallow: Deep Throat | p. 68 |
| It's Later Than You Think | p. 76 |
| Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism | p. 80 |
| Beginning to See the Light | p. 89 |
| How's the Family? | p. 100 |
| Jackie, We Hardly Knew You | p. 103 |
| Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life | p. 106 |
| Velvet Underground | p. 110 |
| American Girls Want Everything | |
| Learning from Chicago | p. 127 |
| Herbert Marcuse, 1898-1979 | p. 141 |
| Glossary for the Eighties | p. 145 |
| The Family: Love It or Leave It | p. 149 |
| Postscript: The Backlash According to Irving | p. 169 |
| Toward a National Man Policy | p. 172 |
| The Trial of Arline Hunt | p. 176 |
| Abortion: Is a Woman a Person? | p. 205 |
| Abortion: Overruling the Neo-Fascists | p. 212 |
| Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography | p. 219 |
| The Myth of the Powerful Jew | p. 228 |
| My Podhoretz Problem-and His | p. 245 |
| Next Year in Jerusalem | |
| Next Year in Jerusalem | p. 261 |
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