A Misfit's Manifesto: The Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart Paperback - 2007
by Donna Gaines
Gaines is a self-described "bourbon-guzzling, pill-popping, penis-addicted, workaholic, tattooed Jew" with a Ph.D. and a pistol permit. "A Misfit's Manifesto" is about living with the contradictions. This is how she did it, and found God in all the unlikely places--like Ramones songs.
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Donna Gaines is the Margaret Mead of heavy metal, a turnpike intellectual, a walking, talking oxymoron. A Misfit's Manifesto is the story of her wild-in-the-burbs odyssey--from yeshiva girl to street-punk sociologist. The only child of a glamorous big-band vocalist, Donna had three fathers, including the "Kishka King of Brooklyn." Fat, lonely, and depressed, she found truth and beauty in the least likely places. Wandering the craggy terrain of Rockaway Beach, Queens, Donna embarked upon a path to enlightenment: sex, drugs, rock & roll, sociology, cosmetology, True Love, the occult, tattoos, science fiction, pizza, guns, comic books, and surfing--by Web or by sea. "Popular culture, my unholy redeemer," she proclaims.
It was Donna's consuming love of the "profane world" that gave her the courage to be, buffering her against relentless sorrow and self-loathing. Dignity, joy, and communion came not from family, organized religion, or mandatory schooling, but in the sound of doo-wop, then surf music, hard rock, punk, and grindcore. "For most of my life," she writes, "music was the only way to connect that wouldn't eventually kill me." Through all the ripped nights of binge-drinking in rock clubs, Donna Gaines became an acclaimed author and an expert on teen suicide. In an age of conformity and censorship, Dr. Gaines defends popular culture as a powerful spiritual force, a vibrant, valid connection to God. This is an outcast's journey into the black-hole sun, where Divine love and light are found--even in Ramones songs. Donna Gaines has written a work of dazzling originality and iconoclasm, an inspiration for misfits everywhere.
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- Title A Misfit's Manifesto: The Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart
- Author Donna Gaines
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date April 15, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780813540542 / 0813540542
- Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.12 x 0.95 in (23.37 x 15.54 x 2.41 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006030090
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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