Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane

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The most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" virtually invented the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music and, during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, came to personify the decade's radical counterculture. In this groundbreaking biography of the band, veteran music writer and historian Jeff Tamarkin produces a portrait of the band like none that has come before it. Having worked closely with Jefferson Airplane for more than a decade, Tamarkin had unprecedented access to the band members, their families, friends, lovers, crew members, fellow musicians, cultural luminaries, even the highest-ranking politicians of the time. More than just a definitive history, Got a Revolution! is a rock legend unto itself.

Jann Wenner, editor-in-chief and publisher of Rolling Stone, wrote, "The classic [Jefferson] Airplane lineup were both architects and messengers of a psychedelic age, a liberation of mind and body that profoundly changed American art, politics, and spirituality. It was a renaissance that could only have been born in San Francisco, and the Airplane, more than any other band in town, spread the good news nationwide."

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Meticulous Chronicle.......2007-09-04

Other than 'Surrealistic Pillow' and 'Volunteers,' I passed on most of the Jefferson Airplane's 60s and early 70s output. I never felt I missed that much since the classic Pillow remains head and shoulders above all the rest of the somewhat self indulgent stuff that came after. But this history finally makes clear this band's long and confusing journey, in both music and personnel. The author is a dedicated fan, but his writing, while a bit worshipful, is not too fawning, so the interested reader comes away with a fairly objective sense of where the Airplane stands in the history of rock. I saw Paul Kantner a couple of years ago at a free show in Clearwater, Fla., and his performance was far better than it had any right to be, demonstrating this creator's always superior musicianship and dedication to his art, even now, long after Grace Slick's retirement and the band's demise. Well worth reading for 60s afficiandos.

Wild Tyme.......2007-08-25

I was not a child of the 60's, so I'm a latecomer to the Airplane. The content of their albums are hit and miss I think, and they're clearly a much more impressive band live than what was often caught on record. They've never come across to me as being particularly likeable people (the book doesn't do much to alter that perception), but they interested me nonetheless. The book is fairly detailed, but perhaps too much so at times to the point of coming across as a cold history lesson rather than creating any attachment to the band. While a thorough book, the end seemed rather rushed - lacking the minute details that permeated the rest of the book. It's also hard to tell whether what a person "thought" or was "feeling" is the author's own interpretation of the situation or something that was conveyed to them in an interview.

For the obsessed JA fan, I'll give it four stars as its details will probably enthrall them. For the more casual fans, it's information overload. The book could be tightened up - in particular the "miniature biographies" and other vignettes the author delves into that do little to enhance the story of the band.

Janis Was Fire - Grace Was A Terrorist.......2007-06-11

I laughed when I read the quote in the title space, from Big Brother & the Holding Company guitarist Sam Andrews comparing the two singers. There is plenty of information in Jeff Tamarkin's excellent Jefferson Airplane biography to substantiate that remark. Bad behavior by celebrities is not a new phenom. Tamarkin places the group in the context of its times. So in addition to an intelligent analysis of their music, and chronicles of their lives, there is an overview of what's going on socio-politically in the US from the '60's to the '90's. How the musicians did, or didn't adapt, to the changing times. To paraphrase the opening remarks by Jann Wenner, they could jam AND they could sing! It was exactly that dynamic that made them a great band, a cultural force, and tore them apart. In addition to the facts, Jeff Tamarkin doesn't spare the gossip, tales, urban legends, drama. The combination makes this a great read. I didn't stop reading until I was done! I loved reliving the experiences - I was at nearly all their paid and free gigs in New York City from Hunter College in '67 to the topless Grace Slick performance in Gaelic Park, Bronx, in '72 during the band's death rattling last days. As much as I tried to keep up with the members many incarnations, I eventually lost track of them and simply stopped caring. It's a great read, about a great band. A worthy investment of your time and money.

Jefferson Airplane Loves You--It's Each Other They Can't Stand.......2006-12-29

There's a blurb on the back cover of Jeff Tamarkin's collective bio of Jefferson Airplane/Starship excerpted from Fred Dellar's review of same in MOJO Magazine. Dellar observes how certain rock histories are so good, so evocative of their era, they make you dig out your old records (or actually go out and buy the CD versions) in order to re-experience the music and the mind-set one more time. I can certainly relate. Call me nostalgia, call me hungry for REAL music, just don't call me late for the "Be-In."

Jeff Tamarkin's history of Jefferson Airplane is a case in point.. While reading this book, I dragged out at least a couple of my classic Airplane albums, (the ones I have on CD anyway, since I don't have a working turntable anymore), and I even dug out a cassette version that I once bought of the LAST Starship album LOVE AMONG THE CANNIBALS and finally listened to the damn thing. Cost me all of 99 cents as I recall, and y'know, it wasn't half bad. Not anywhere near great, you understand, but if the Mickey Thomas Starship were hacks, they were at least pros. But I didn't really get into the mood till I found my new copy of BLESS ITS POINTED LITTLE HEAD, the live album which is, in some ways, the definitive Airplane record. It showed just what they were capable of when they were ON (musically speaking, that is, not necessarily pharmacologically).

If you were any kind of Airplane fan, you know that the love and peace thing didn't really take root among the members themselves, at least in their relation to each other. Some may find the pettiness of these young idealists disturbing. Others will chock it up to human nature and just enjoy the music. But that famous bumper sticker and their hometown's love rep notwithstanding, the Airplane never REALLY did qualify as members of what Hendrix called the "Love Crowd." Marty, maybe--when he wasn't badmouthing everyone else in the band, and to some extent Paul, who loved the idea of community and being together, as long as it was on his terms.

Well, almost 40 years on, it hardly seems worth worrying about now. So the Airplane could be jerks at times. They also made some great, daring, sometimes downright astonishing music. And that's what they should be remembered for.

Tamarkin does an excellent job of conjuring up those memories for those of us who were alive at the time--and his text serves as a good history lesson for those who weren't around but are curious about the music, the(counter)culture and general history of the 60s and early 70s. He demonstrates how all those good vibes and tumultuous times morphed into something much tamer and less interesting by the mid-70s. And shows that it was all pretty much inevitable.

The soap opera that was the Airplane spun off in so many directions that it was almost impossible to tell the players without a program. Tamarkin provides us that. If at times, it seems a little sketchy, well, that's unavoidable too. If every group member, hanger on, friend or relative were permitted to tell his or her tale in toto, you'd have a five volume cultural history that almost no one could digest.

But give Tamarkin credit. He paints a much broader, but still more accurate picture than either of the two Grace Slick bios out there. He does so by focusing on the MUSIC and devoting as little space to the gossip as possible. I really did not want to have to read that tired old tale about Grace showing up at the Nixon White House with Abbie Hoffman in
tow for the umpteenth time. Come on, if she really intended to spike Nixon's tea with LSD, she wouldn't have gone there with someone like Hoffman. It was, at best, a bit of street theater (literally, since she and Abbie never got past the gate). Tamarkin includes this and other obligatory bits of Airplane lore and legend, but he doesn't sensationalize any of it. Unlike Grace and ghost writer Andrea Kagan did for her SOMEBODY TO LOVE? tome a few years before.

As a fan, there was quite a bit of stuff that I already knew, and I was delighted to see that Tamarkin's book was well researched and quite accurate. I have a quirky memory, and I can actually recall interviews with, reviews of and articles about the artists I care about. I was surprised at how many of my favorite quotes were included in the volume. Grace, upon being asked how she wrote "White Rabbit," responding, "With a pencil and paper," for instance. OK, OK, so it isn't an Oscar Wilde quip, but it was cute. Even better was her oft quoted (in many variations) dismissal of all the attention she received, "...if you have four goats and one pig, you're gonna look at the pig." I liked it better when it was five ducks and a cow, but you get the point. Hey, I even remembered ol' Lester Bangs calling the band's last studio album LONG JOHN SILVER "one churning vat of fury after another" (in the context of what was actually a pretty negative review), I guess that was because at least someone else realized what fiery, ANGRY music this hippie band was producing toward the end of their brief tenure.

But like many fans, I did lose track of at least some of the band members over the years. Some of the side projects intrigued me still, and I remain one of the few champions of Grace's solo work stil standing. Marty's too. But as much as I loved Jack and Jorma in the Airplane, I did not follow their post-Airplane careers for long. Apparently, I missed out. I had checked out the first few Hot Tuna albums hoping for something as turbulent as "Spare Change" or "Bear Melt," and finally decided that--like everybody else, it seemed--they were going mellow on me. Now I find out, they were soon thereafter doing all-night sets and were burning up the stage. And some of this was captured on tape and may even be available on Amazon. I know what I'll be doing with my next tax refund.

Tamarkin, in fact, includes a fairly exhaustive discography at the end of the book. Even non-fans would have to admit that this was one band this was one band that soldiered on both individually and collectively. This despite the fact that, after having been critical darlings for about four years, they suddenly became critical poison as early as the BARK era. Actually, there was a lot of dissension even around the time of VOLUNTEERS. Rolling Stone Magazine made its name off the San Fran groups, but by the early 70s they had largely written them off--especially the Airplane.

If they Airplane cared at all, they didn't let it show. Years before Paul Kantner actually articulated it, their attitude was "F@#$ You! We do what we want."

THE AIRPLANE HISTORY THAT FANS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!.......2005-09-28

I had waited impatiently for many years for someone to tackle a complete history of one of my favorite bands, Jefferson Airplane, and when I finally saw the book in my local store, and then the author's name on the book itself, I knew right away that all would be well. I had enjoyed Jeff Tamarkin's wonderfully well-written, impeccably researched, enthusiastic and informative liner notes for various Airplane and Hot Tuna CDs for quite a while, and sensed that he was the perfect man to handle this job. Happily, that indeed turns out to be the case, and his Airplane history, "Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane," featuring all those qualities that made his liner notes such a joy, is the volume that I and many others had been waiting for. Tamarkin not only gives us a thorough history of this seminal San Francisco group--starting in 1965, when Marty Balin (nee Martyn Buchwald) decided to put a new kind of band together--but also follows it through its dissolution in 1972 and on to its various offshoots (Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna, KBC Band, etc.). Covering the pre-hippy days of the mid-'60s, through the Nixonian years and right on to J.A.'s reunion in 1989, Tamarkin also gives us a concise primer of a fascinating period of recent history. The book is replete with details of the band's principals but not exhaustingly so; that is, it never gets bogged down with excess back story, but rather gives us all the info we need to understand all the band members as fully fleshed-out people, limiting their back biographies to quick 10-page chapters. I have been a fan of Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden and especially Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady for almost 40 years now, and still found an incredible amount of unknown information about them in this fast-moving history. (Spencer Dryden was Charlie Chaplin's nephew?!?! Who knew?) With chapters arranged in cliffhanger fashion, with a fascinating cast of characters and with many astounding stories, this book really does pull a reader in. And yet, Tamarkin does not yield to the temptation to sensationalize his tale. Indeed, to his credit, he admits right up front that there remain many "Airplane mysteries," and lets it go at that. Yes, there are many juicy stories (I love the one about Jack sitting in the mud puddle on DMT, and Grace's escapades in Germany...not to mention that Reality D. Blipcrotch episode!), but many readers, I suspect, will be surprised that this book remains fairly levelheaded, with a minimum of wild sex and drug anecdotes. The anecdotes ARE there, but only enough to give us a feel for the time, place and characters. (One gets the feeling that Tamarkin could regale us with even juicier tidbits over a few drinks one evening.) The author has been given access to virtually every principal character in the Jefferson Airplane story, and the hundreds of hours of insider interviews have helped make this history practically definitive.
On another note, I myself work as a copy editor and proofreader, and thus am happy to report that the book has also been put together virtually faultlessly. I only counted four typos in its entire 400+-page length, and all those were of the punctuational variety. The rare photographs on display are truly special (I just love the one of Jorma in his Cub Scout uniform!), and the book's index is perfectly composed and quite handy when keeping track of the history's large cast of characters. If there is one complaint that I would lodge--and it is a very minor one--it is that in the book's final third, more space has been given over to the exploits of Jefferson Starship than Hot Tuna. As a fan who has seen Tuna some hundred times in concert at this point, but who has never had much use for post-"Dragonfly" Starship, I would have wished for a little more parity here, but I suppose it could be argued that Starship was composed of more JA members than was Tuna, so I'm willing to let the point slide. Besides, this is a mere personal quibble. The fact remains, Jeff Tamarkin has done all fans of Jefferson Airplane a tremendous service with his wonderful book. I have read it twice already, and will surely refer to it often in the years to come. Thanks, Jeff!

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This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students; considerations of how educators might influence students' sexual identity; narratives of risk and violence often asociated with LGBT youth; stories of salvation and protection; as well as debates relating to the "closet" and calls to "come out" in the classroom. People often are left out of discussions of sexualities and schooling are also incorporated in this text.

A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling: Status Quo or Status Queer? (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)

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A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling: Status Quo or Status Queer? (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)
Eric Rofes
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A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling offers a startling and original critique of unexamined assumptions and liberal notions about sexuality and education in the United States. Tackling issues ranging from anti-gay harassment in school to children's literature on gay themes, gender performances of teachers to HIV education, graduate school programs in education to gay men's sexual cultures, Eric Rofes presents a compelling argument for the creation of a second generation of activism focused on queers, schools, and education.

How to Write a Low-Cost/No-Cost Curriculum for Your Home-School Child

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How to Write a Low-Cost/No-Cost Curriculum for Your Home-School Child
Borg Hendrickson
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This book outlines six steps to creating a home-school curriculum custom-designed for your child at low or no cost. You will end up with a one-of-a-kind curriculum that reflects your own educational philosophies, focuses on the long-term aims you have for your child's education, and suits your child's learning needs and interests. Hendrickson's process also enables you to teach your way and your child to learn his or her way. The book will help you provide a reliable record of the educational trail you and your child choose to follow and will help you ladder-step into new curricula from one year to the next, all at low or no cost every year.

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Wonderful Book.......2003-08-21

This is the book I've been looking for! It's incredably detailed, takes you through all the steps of creating a curriculum that reflects you and your values (not necessarily religious), and gives you a list of what subjects your students should know by when. If you ever find yourself in legal trouble, if you followed the easy advice of the author, you should have No trouble standing up in court and proving that you are an able teacher with a child who is learning and is probably above standard.

The book may seem basic, but have you really ever put serious thought into what you want your child to get out of education? Do you want them to be ready for life, ready for college, ready for love? This book makes you think everything through, write it down, make it concrete, not just a vague thought in your mind only. So far this has been the most helpful book I've come across in my research of homeschooling. I will definately write my own curriculum when the time comes, and I won't be overwhelmed by it, thanks to this book.

Good intro book or if you have to submit something.......2002-11-26

This was a good intro book or if you are required to submit something, but a lot of it seems to be common sense. For exmaple, she talks about figuring our your educational goals and subjects you want to teach your child. If you are required to submit something formally, the questionaires can help to make sure you don't forget something that may be required. I was looking for a book that would explain a specific lesson plan for teaching a specific topic. Some people gave it 5 stars, because they liked the breakdown of education topics, but this can be found on-line at World Book Encylopedia's web site or in the books series "What your XX grader needs to know". It is alot more detailed and includes actual lessons. I would give it 5 stars for what it contains, but it was not what I was looking for.

Great Starting Place.......2000-04-06

This was the very first book we read when we first decided to home school. This book helped give us the confidence to go on and do the research we needed to do for how we wanted to school our child. I strongly recommend it for anyone starting out.

A must have for anyone beginning to homeschool........1999-06-17

This book gives a detailed description of what you should be teaching your children at the different ages, stages, and grades. The state requirements are not very well explained by the state, but this book tells you what your child should be learning enabling you to fulfill the state requirements and giving your child a very well rounded sound education.

Great book to have for the beginning homeschooler!.......1998-10-08

This book gives you valuable information on how to create a low cost curriculum. It has been a wonderful tool through the past 3 years. I keep going back to this book for information! A must have for any beginning home schooling mom!

Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685

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Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685
James Grantham Turner
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How did Casanova learn the theory of sex? Why did male pornographers write in the characters of women? What happens when philosophers take sexuality seriously and the sex-writers present their outrageous fantasies as an educational, philosophical quest? Schooling Sex is the first full history of early modern libertine literature and its reception, from Aretino and Tullia d'Aragona in 16th century Italy to Pepys, Rochester, and Behn in late 17th century England. James Turner explores the idea of sexual education, from the simple instructional dialogue to the advanced experiments of the philosophical libertine, analysing the hard-core curiculum that defined sexuality centuries before the Marquis de Sade. He shows how close, nuanced readings of neglected but compelling texts - like the searingly explicit Alcibiade fanciullo, L'escole des filles, and Aloisia Sigea - link them to larger issues of gender politics, aesthetics, literary criticism, sexual history, medical science, mind-body philosophy, and the educational revolution.

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Schooling Sexualities
Debbie Epstein , and Richard Johnson
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This book adds significantly to work in this field........1999-07-04

Schooling Sexualities looks at schools as sites for the production of sexualities, so every aspect of what happens in schools has a relevance, as well as that which happens beyond schools but which is pertinent to them. One of its strengths is in its breadth and the way in which it places the discussion of sexuality and schooling within the context of the nation as it is produced through politics, the Press and in educational discourse.

Part One seeks to embed an understanding of the dominant discourses of sexuality and schooling within the wider but specifically located context of the nation, traced through government policy and practice around sexuality and the regulative commentaries of the Press, through the 1990s. Focusing on the borderlands of dominant heterosexuality, it explores its points of breakdown, questioning its 'naturalness' and producing it as a socially constructed category, which can be and indeed is often breached. It goes on to explore how these potentially damaging breaches are handled and contained by 'splitting off' other sexual categories as natural but different and so barely tolerated, in the case of pluralistic political discourses, or by disorganising constructive thought around sexuality in the case of the Press. The careful tracing of the ways in which dominant heterosexuality is recuperated and reaffirmed by its defenders is a very important part of this book's work.

Part Two focuses on schools themselves. It looks at lesbian and gay teachers and pupils in schools as a way of exploring the way in which compulsory heterosexuality is maintained, but also to explore the possibilities of resistance or even existence for those at its borders. This section contains some significantly new ideas in relation to compulsory schooling and sexuality. The idea of teaching as seduction is one such idea, and provides an interesting jumping off point for future work.

The taken for grantedness about the course that the oppression of lesbian and gay teachers will take is questioned, especially in Mr Stuart's story, for example. This is an empowering story, although the authors are realistic in the way in which they show just how heterosexuality maintains itself in the long term against such resistance. It nevertheless shows the possibilities and surprises such challenges can produce. Enmeshed in this are stories which demonstrate just how urgent it is to change the landscape of sexuality in schools: stories of both pupils and teachers dehumanised by heterosexist practice.

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This book offers educationalists new ways of understanding the significance of sexuality and gender in young people's lives and suggests ways in which this knowledge is useful in practice. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers, the author provides innovative analysis of the links between gender and sexuality and their engagement with school processes, popular culture and the world of work and leisure.

Youth: Positions and Oppostions : Style, Sexuality and Schooling

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Shane J. Blackman
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Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)

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Every elementary school teacher must read this!

Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)
William J. Sears, James T. Letts IV
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Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It's not part of a sinister stratagem in the "gay agenda." Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness. Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity for understanding and their educative abilities to foster insight into the human condition. Those who teach queerly refuse to participate in the great sexual sorting machine called schooling where diminutive GI Joes and Barbies become star quarterbacks and prom queens, while the Linuses and Tinky Winkies become wallflowers or human doormats. Queeering education means bracketing our simplest classroom activities in which we routinely equate sexual identities with sexual acts, privilege the heterosexual condition, and presume sexual destinies. Queer teachers are those who develop curriculum and pedagogy that afford every child dignity rooted in self-worth and esteem for others. In short, queering education happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out. This groundbreaking volume demands we explore taken-for-granted assumptions about diversity, identities, childhood, and prejudice.

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Every elementary school teacher must read this!.......2002-02-02

"Children don't need to hear about any sexual issues at their age, but I'm not a homophobe or anything." "Children are innocent, so I wouldn't bring up gay issues, but I'm not a homophobe or anything." "I don't challenge children that use homophobic words because they just mean 'jerk', but I'm not a homophobe or anything." Every gay elementary school teacher and every gay rights activist has heard these lies. Finally, there is a book that addresses such non-sense. And this is a book by teachers for teachers. This book explains how pervasive homophobia is in the primary school system and it offers valuable ways to stop the prejudice. Too many education texts are written by teachers that are only used to being read by their students. The writers here are good (or well edited, at least) and their work has been strongly influnced by multiculturalism, feminism, and upper-level academic theory. The anthology includes pieces by women and people of color. It even has a piece by straight educators and one by an Australian activist. I think the editors are going to lose many readers due to their overly easy use of the word "queer", but for those who choose to continue reading, they will like what they find.

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