Wineskin : freakin' Jesus in the '60s and '70s : a memoir / Michael Hicks ; foreword by Steven L. Peck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, Michael, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Peck, Steven L., 1957- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hicks, Michael, 1956-.

Hicks, Michael.

Latter Day Saints--United States--Biography.

Latter Day Saints.

Composers--United States--Biography.

Composers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Mormonism begins with a memoir: Joseph Smith kneeling in a grove until the Father and Son appear and promise him a quixotic religious renown. Since then, the faith Smith birthed has raised up memoirs as gritty as Parley P. Pratt's or as luminously sarcastic as Elna Baker's. Grafted somewhere into those comes this boyhood memoir, rooted not in Mormonism but in the Protestantism of American suburbia and the Jesus Freak movement of the early 1970s, then in, out, and back into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Michael Hicks's story is filled with awkward episodes of sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not necessarily in that order), along with alcohol, sci-fi, theft, radical politics, cartooning, halfway houses, and the musical avant-garde. The one constant is the brooding figure of Jesus Christ behind Hicks's various personal reclamations and metamorphoses, often via methods admittedly off the books. While many readers know Hicks as a Mormon academic and professor emeritus of music at Brigham Young University, Wineskin excavates the path, from boyhood to a PhD, that led him toward a faith that is both primitively Christian and highmindedly Mormon."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781560854531

1560854537

OCLC:

1322809985