V. Vale

"16 cutting-edge performing artists discuss critical questions such as: how can you gave a revolutionary feminism that encompasses wild sex, humor, beauty and spirituality plus radical politics? How can you have a powerful movement for social change that's inclusionary -- not exclusionary? How is language based on dualisms (male/female, gay/straight, black/white, mind/body, personal/political) obstructing our visualization of a "better world"? A wide range of topics -- from menstruation, masturbation, vibrators, S&M & spanking to racism, failed Utopias, and the death of the Sixties are discussed passionately. Armed with total contempt for dogma, stereotype and cliche, these creative visionaries probe deep into our social foundation of taboos, beliefs, and totalitarian linguistic contradictions from whence spring (as well as thwart) out theories, imaginings, behavior, and dreams." --Back cover.

An exploration of vinyl recordings (mostly c.1950-1980), largely neglected by the music criticism establishment, gleaned from the collections of such individuals as Lypsinka, The Cramps, Eartha Kitt, and Phantom Surfers/Untamed Youth.