Books by Dennis Carlson

A History of Progressive Music and Youth Culture: Phishing in America is designed for those who work with or teach young people to understand the nature and origin of musical commitment and devotion.

Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy explores the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. It aims to help articulate a range of "critical" theories of what is, and to assist in recapturing a democratic and progressive vision of what could be.

To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, this work argues, progressivism will need to leave the safe harbours of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education.

"The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in politics, economics, popular culture, and social theory associated with postmodernism. These shifts, the authors"