Shadow Dancing in the USA - Hardcover

Michael Ventura

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9780874773729: Shadow Dancing in the USA

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874773725 ISBN 13: 9780874773729

Publisher: TarcherPerigee, 1985

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Essays discuss marriage, sexuality and religion, dance, the sixties, conversation, the American Revolution, television, rock music, motion pictures, cities, and modern myths

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From Publishers Weekly:

Ventura, an award-winning L.A. Weekly columnist, ranges widely over modern American life in this provocative collection of critical essays. Writing in the tradition of "new cosmology" thinkers such as Robert Bly and William Irwin Thompson, Ventura argues that our "electronically instant, planet-spanning environment" will soon give rise to a single world culture, still to be defined. In that context, he examines marriage, male sexuality, the reassuring qualities of the mass media, the meaning of the '60s and other topics. A self-described former welfare and street kid, he is insightful on the relationships between rock music, dancing, and young men's rediscovery of their bodies. Ventura brings an energy and originality to his work that make him a writer to watch. October 14
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

The 11 essays that make up this book originally appeared in embryonic form in Ventura's ``Letters at 3 A.M.'' column in the L.A. Weekly. The essays cover a wide range of subjects, including marriage, sex, music, and film, but despite the author's assertion that ``the book has a pattern, as all books must,'' they seem disconnected and eclectic. Some readers will find Ventura's musings pretentious and muddled. Others may find wisdom of a sort in these pages. Overall, a marginal item. Kenneth F. Kister, Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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