Generation X Rocks

Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.

Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.

This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics’ understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country’s youth from the 1970s to today. Bringing together twenty scholars working on fifteen different countries and residing in eight different nations, this book present a community of diverse disciplinary voices. Contributors explore the converging properties of "Generation X" through the fields of literature, media studies, youth culture, popular culture, sociology, philosophy, feminism, and political science. Their ideas also enter into conversation with fourteen other "textbox" contributors who address the question of "Who is Generation X" in other countries. Taken together, they present a highly interactive and open book format whose conversations extend to the reading public on the website www.generationxgoesglobal.com.

Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called "slackers"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.

Generation X is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s—a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings. Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit pointless jobs in their respective hometowns to find better meaning in life. Adrift in the California desert, the trio develops an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs—"low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry." They create their own modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs as well as disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges—peeling back the layers on their fanatical individualism, pathological ambivalence about the future, and unsatisfied longing for permanence, love, and their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. They have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.

This volume explores the converging properties of "Generation X" through the fields of literature, media studies, youth culture, popular culture, sociology, philosophy, feminism, and political science. It broadens critics' engagement with the "Generation X" label, tracing the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country's youth from the 1970s well into the twenty-first century.

ROCK STAR MILLENNIALS takes a look at both sides of the exchange between leaders and Millennials to see how both sides can benefit. We'll discuss how we can best serve millennials as their leaders and mentors, and in return, how can they best serve us as team members, engaged employees and emerging leaders. You'll see many real-life examples from a variety of companies including Nestlé-Purina, Caterpillar Inc., Renewal by Andersen, McDonald's, and some smaller firms as well. These stories illustrate true leadership in action and provide ideas to apply in your own workplace. Whether you lead Millennials and want to know how to attract, engage and inspire them or you are a Millennial leading others and want a fast-course in practical leadership development, this book is for you. In it, Kathryn features Rock Star Millennials who have used many of her proven Leadership Tools for self-management, personal productivity and mentoring to accelerate their own success and help others do the same.You'll learn: What Millennials want from their bosses, companies and leadership or learning opportunities How to develop a culture of trust and transparency Easy ways to give straight feedback and coach for success A simple approach to creating a vision, proof of concept and business case to set a strategy How to become a conduit, connecting teams, igniting passions, spurring success

We are the rock. We are the rebels. We are Gen X. In the vast chronicle of musical revolutions, where legends are often illuminated by stage lights, platinum records, and iconic riffs, Generation X stands amid the crescendo. Born in the twilight of vinyl and the dawn of digital, we’ve witnessed an era of unparalleled transformation in music, and with it, the evolving essence of rock and roll. But “Generation X: A Hidden History of Rock’s Defining Era (1969-2000)” speaks to the soul of the Gen Xer who knows deep down that the true spirit of rock isn’t captured solely by chart-toppers or arena tours. It’s the gritty clubs, the underground tapes, the rebel anthems that provided the soundtrack to our lives. It’s the unspoken bond between artist and audience, the shared moments of defiance, of love, of anguish. This isn’t just a history book—it’s a journey. A voyage through the pivotal moments that not only defined a genre but also a generation. Each chapter, a testament to the choices, the changes, and the characters that shaped the sound of an era. “Generation X: A Hidden History of Rock’s Defining Era” is a call to arms for Gen X. It’s time to reclaim our narrative, to immerse ourselves in the stories that soundtracked our journey from adolescence to adulthood. Fellow Gen Xers, this is your anthem. This is your history. Your legacy isn’t written in the records left behind but in the indelible marks that the music of our era has left on the world. Grab your copy now!