Originally published as The New People, this classic volume
examines the great changes in popular culture that unfolded in the
1960s with major steps toward political, racial, gender, and social
empowerment. The popular culture of the time expressed a series of
themes that have become, if not more significant, then certainly
more visible in the 1990s. We are now entering the third generation
of Americans who are living out the themes that are traced in this
book.
The author sees a depolarization, a neutering in content and key
people in the popular arts. Some of these trends result from
technological changes and others reflect what is happening in the
psychosocial interior of the family as well as larger economic
movements. Winick believes that in such wide-ranging features of
our society as sports, furniture, and architecture, the expression
of an epoch can be identified. Clothing conveys the imbalance and
ambiguity that reflect larger social forces and that have been
identified more recently by Jacques Lacan as so important in modern
life. Desexualization in American Life is remarkably prescient and
accurate in identifying key trends that affect us today and will
continue to do so for the remainder of the decade.
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