Alice Echols
- Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, History
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Expertise Summary
Expert in popular music, feminism and the history of sexuality
Expertise
- the social and cultural history of 1960s and 1970s
- popular music and social change
- Janis Joplin
- disco music and culture
- the history of sexuality
- second-wave American feminism
- "culture wars" and politics
- cultural studies
Additional Information
- Author of Upside Down: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2007)
- Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks (2007), (2002)
- Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)
- Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (1989)