Bøker av Jack Loeffler

This volume "curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring 'indigenous mindedness' to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. [This] is a sweeping manifesto of Jack's core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for nature and nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies"--

With the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats. In this honest memoir, he advises each and every one of us to go skinny-dipping joyfully in the flow of Nature to better understand where we're headed.

In 1984, Jack Loeffler produced a radio series entitled "e;Southwest Sound Collage."e; His primary listener was his great friend author Edward Abbey who said, "e;Loeffler, this radio series should be a book."e; Thus, "e;Headed Upstream"e; first appeared in 1989 shortly after Abbey's death. The challenging interviews that appear herein (Edward Abbey, Andrew Weil, John Nichols, Stewart Udall, and Gary Snyder, to name a few) reflect many points of view from anarchist to Marxist, from environmental to philosophical, from Beat to historical. Each is highly individual and all reflect deep consideration for the myriad factors that have shaped our milieu. In 2009, Loeffler's close friend Gary Snyder said, "e;This book should be re-published. It's important."e; Indeed, it is an important presentation of human consciousness at its best.

No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-1989), author of twenty-one books of fiction and non-fiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the anarchist who popularised environmental activism and articulated the spirit of the arid West.

Documents the folk music of El Rio Grande del Norte, an area extending from the Mexican border on the south to Southern Colorado on the north and from the Great Plains on the east to the Continental Divide on the West. Loeffler has collected examples of the musical forms used over the centuries in this often isolated and harsh but beautiful region.

Represents Hopi, Navajo, Rio Grande Puebloan, Hispano, and Anglo cultures in three sections of interviews that respectively address shifting cultural boundaries, and explore the effects in New Mexico of the New Deal's attempts to reinvigorate the economy and mainstream American culture.