1. Obscure Heroes

This paper asks whether the notion of a hero is useful in helping communities. After briefly identifying the origin, evolution, and components of a hero, the paper posits that whar evoled to be called heroic leadership is not desirable because it is antitherical to democracy, unrealistic for a nuclear age, and can encourage walf for salvation.

2. working class heroes

Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s by David Simonelli traces rock and roll’s evolution from youth infused social rebellion to pop culture phenomenon. For any aficionado of rock history, the 1960s and 1970s offer plenty of riches: rock operas, folk-rock, glam rock, concept albums, and spaced out psychedelic jams. David Simonelli, associate professor of history at Youngstown State University, effectively uses rock music as a means to analyze the rhetoric of class in post-war British society.