Shake It Up by Jonathan Lethem

Author:Jonathan Lethem
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Donna Gaines

Donna Gaines (b. 1951) earned her reputation as one of the best informed and most insightful voices in her field through decades of pop culture reportage, the pioneering texts Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead End Kids (1991) and A Misfit’s Manifesto: The Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart (2007), and her continued devotion to understanding the misunderstood as both a social worker and a sought-after lecturer on youth issues. She spent much of her adolescence and young adulthood in the vicinity of Rockaway Beach, immersing herself in the scene that bands like The Ramones would soon immortalize and learning firsthand about music’s ability to “obliterate pain, transform experience, reinvent meaning...[and] change personal identity.” In “Sylvia’s Husband” she explores her own and her friends’ responses to Lou Reed, and along the way learns something about the idiosyncratic ways listeners use pop music. Gaines went on to earn a master’s in social work and a PhD in sociology, while establishing herself as an authority on punk and metal sound and culture with contributions to publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, Newsday, Salon, The Village Voice, and numerous ’zines. She has taught sociology at Barnard College and The New School.

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