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What’s Left of Generation X

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on October 8, 2019

Made for Misfits: The Colorful History of the Black Leather Jacket

“Leather-laden outlaws struck fear into the hearts of civilians and cops alike, as they tore through towns with gleeful irreverence.”

by Lydia Sviatoslavsky via Collectors Weekly on October 2, 2019

The Breaks of History

We might say that these books are recording a life with music, and that they are worth listening to.

by Robert Cashin Ryan via Public Books on July 29, 2019

Colorful illustration of Larry Norman, haloed by yellow.

The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.

by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on September 17, 2018

Women's liberation movement demonstrating in Washington D.C.

The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting Over Them, Explained

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

by Constance Grady via Vox on March 20, 2018

Brian Tochterman on the 'Summer of Hell'

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

by Brian Tochterman, Sarah Cleary via UNC Press Blog on July 21, 2017

How The Hutchinson Family Singers Achieved Pop Stardom with an Anti-Slavery Anthem

"Get Off the Track!" borrowed the melody of a racist hit song and helped give a public voice to the abolitionist movement.

by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on March 7, 2017

How April 14th Came to Be ‘Ruination Day’

April 15 may be Tax Day, but for some, it’s the 14th of April that’s notorious.

by Gillian Welch, Julia Wick via Longreads on April 14, 2015

Silhouettes of people dancing at a techno music festival with colorful laser lights.

Machine Soul

A history of techno.

by Jon Savage via Hyperreal Music Archive on June 1, 1993

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