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Serpents in the garden : liaisons with culture & sex / edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture.
- Music.
- Art.
- Architecture.
- Sex.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 348 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.
- In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St. Clair-dissecting everything from Angelina Jolie's connections to sex, death and the French Revolution to their famous "best books of the last 100 years." Serpents in the Garden showcases essays from the nation's most exciting and radical cultural critics-including music historian Bruce Jackson, historian Peter Linebaugh, Lenni Brenner, scriptwriter Ben Tripp, blues pianist David Vest, sex therapist Susan Block, JoAnn Wypijewski, folklorist Susan Davis, Ron Jacobs, Susan Martinez and Andrew Cockburn.
- Contents:
- By Way of an Introduction: The Best Books of the Twentieth Century ix
- Culture 1
- Milk-Bars, Hollywood and the March of Empires / Alexander Cockburn 3
- Jolene: On the Line in Detroit / Marsha Cusic 13
- The Butterfly Has Landed / Jeffrey St. Clair 23
- Binti Jua's Family Values / Alexander Cockburn 31
- Take Two Hits and Call Me in the Morning / Ben Tripp 35
- Hitler On Buchanan / Alexander Cockburn 41
- The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day / Peter Linebaugh 45
- Music 63
- From Gospel to the Birth of Soul: Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers / Daniel Wolff 65
- From Birmingham to Nashville: The Making of Tammy Wynette / David Vest 79
- How Dylan Found His Voice: Big Joe Williams, the East Village, Peyote and the Forging of Dylan's Art / Lenni Brenner 85
- The Myth of Newport '65: It Wasn't Bob Dylan They Were Booing / Bruce Jackson 91
- Seduced by a Legend: The Return of Jimmy T99 Nelson / Jeffrey St. Clair 99
- A Conversation with the Blues: The Music of Big Bill Broonzy / Ron Jacobs 113
- Waylon Jennings, 1937-2002: An Honest Outlaw / Jeffrey St. Clair 117
- Mr. Big Stuff, Alan Lomax: Great White Hunter or Thief, Plagiarist and Bigot? / Dave Marsh 121
- The Story of Death Row Records / Jeffrey St. Clair 125
- By the Hand of the Father / Susan Martinez 131
- Ken Burns Doesn't Really Like Music / Jeffrey St. Clair 135
- Did the CIA Poison Paul Robeson? / Jeffrey St. Clair, Alexander Cockburn 141
- Art and Architecture 145
- The Jackboot of Dada: Salvador Dali, Fascist / Vicente Navarro 147
- Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy / Vanessa Jones 151
- Freud's House / Alexander Cockburn 167
- Flesh and Its Discontents: The Paintings of Lucian Freud / Jeffrey St. Clair 177
- The Rich and Their Castles in Spain, Part I: Mizner in Florida / Alexander Cockburn 187
- Brett Weston: A Natural Eye / Jeffrey St. Clair 197
- The Rich and Their Castles in Spain, Part II: Hearst and Morgan in California / Alexander Cockburn 209
- Usonian Utopias: Frank Lloyd Wright, Low-Cost Housing and the FBI / Jeffrey St. Clair 219
- The World Trade Towers: An Architecture of Doom and Dread / Jeffrey St. Clair 233
- Proposal for a Landscape of Learning / Max Page, Sigrid Miller Pollin 237
- Ripley's World / Alexander Cockburn 241
- Sex 249
- Love Button / Alexander Cockburn 251
- Eros Meets Civilization: Gershon Legman Confronts the Post Office / Susan Davis 253
- Prison Bitch: Nothing Funny About It / J.B. Steve 271
- Pee Wee, Townshend and Ritter / Alexander Cockburn 277
- Unsafe at Any Speed: Youth, Sex and the Heresies of Judith Levine / Steve Perry 281
- It's a Sex Thing / JoAnn Wypijewski 285
- Covering Justice: Ashcroft's Breast Fetish / Dr. Susan Block 291
- Angelina Jolie and the French Revolution / Alexander Cockburn 295
- A Visit to the Kinsey Institute / Susan Davis 301
- Let Them Perfect Love-Making... / JoAnn Wypijewski 309
- The Hoofprints of Lucifer / Alexander Cockburn 315
- Death 323
- Ted's Spell / Ben Sonnenberg 325
- Edward Said, Dead At 67 / Alexander Cockburn 331
- A Note on The Cover / Michael Dickinson 337.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1902593944
- OCLC:
- 56091039
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