Jeffrey S. Victor
Teoksen Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend tekijä
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- Sukupuoli
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- sociologist
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- Teokset
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- Jäseniä
- 114
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- #171,985
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- 4.2
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I almost put the book down early on, when the author was describing the events in the community where he lived, and was talking about the new "punk" music subculture emerging in the area, and locals' suspicions of their motives. All fine, but he goes on to mention that one of these new bands, "The 10,000 Maniacs", went on to become famous. I'm honestly not sure whether he was aware of the kind of music they did (and included it as a joke) or just thought that their music had to be disturbing and offensive in the same way that many people viewed "heavy metal" at the time based solely on their name. (No doubt their hippie-peacenik music was problematic for some of the conservative locals.)
Anyway, worth a skim, and a nice source for additional writing on the 80s SRA panic as well as pointers to information about earlier moral panics (e.g., European and early American witch hunts, antisemitic pogroms and the blood libel). But probably not worth owning.… (lisätietoja)