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... mobilization got us to the present moment of revolution and also of backlash. In particular, it warns that the attacks on multiple fronts by Trump supporters require an organized and sustained response if revolutionary movements for liberty and justice are to win over the forces of political repression...

... is real, that it has clear enemies, and that it is far from over. The chapter examines how economic policies, technological advances, and political mobilization got us to the present moment of revolution and also of backlash. In particular, it warns that the attacks on multiple fronts by Trump supporters...

... ridiculing the ostentatiousness of the midtown discotheque Studio 54. But as the backlash against disco gathered pace during 1979 and as punks grew weary of the anti-dance outlook of pioneering venues such as CBGB, the Mudd Club became a place where the opposition between disco and punk collapsed. With Mass...

... This chapter describes the cultural anxieties and rehabilitation of the crooner persona, then discusses the complex reasons for early crooners’ popularity and the ensuing backlash against them that precipitated the establishment of new middle-class vocal norms for white male popular (“pop...

... discotheque Studio 54. But as the backlash against disco gathered pace during 1979 and as punks grew weary of the anti-dance outlook of pioneering venues such as CBGB, the Mudd Club became a place where the opposition between disco and punk collapsed. With Mass integrating live music, DJ-ing, immersive...

... The backlash against disco during the second half of 1979, combined with the shift from stagflation to recession, led many to forecast that the 1980s would amount to a decade of restraint, hard work, and joylessness. However, none of the talk discouraged hardened revelers from heading out...

... The widespread backlash against crooners in the early 1930s resulted in revised norms of middle-class white masculinity being applied to popular voices for the first time on a national scale. This chapter contextualizes these attacks within a more conservative turn in Depression-era America...

... administrators mobilized to protect furloughs as an imperfect privilege that made prisoners’ lives bearable, the backlash against furloughs ultimately devoured discretionary release of any kind, contributing to the decline of clemency. In Massachusetts and elsewhere, the demise of furloughs signaled the erosion...

... American artists were acutely aware of the difficulties encountered by their Mexican counterparts, whose status as international celebrities did not always insulate them from censorious backlash against their more controversial work, especially when that work challenged the racial mores of the day...

... in the area of education, arguing to protect children against ostensible mass manipulation and the destruction of the family. If, on the one hand, genderphobic binarism has the characteristics of a counteroffensive, or backlash, to the expansion of minority rights, then it appears, on the other hand...

..., beginning with major anti-feminist backlash and the election of Ronald Reagan, was a time of pronatalism, not only in the US in general, but also inside women’s movements. The piece includes a timeline, year by year, of the feminist books and articles, mostly from the US, which were the basis...

... Running since 1970, David Mancuso’s Loft sailed through the backlash against disco unscathed. After all, Mancuso had never restricted his selections to disco, plus his capacity crowd viewed Saturday nights as the highlight of their week. Meanwhile the Paradise Garage, opened by Michael Brody...