After receiving his B.A. (West Virginia University,
1976), Brian Lloyd pursued a career as a songwriter
and musician. The tedium of working low rent night
clubs and minimum wage day jobs eventually brought
him to his senses, whereupon he returned to academia
for graduate studies at the University of Michigan.
He earned his Ph.D. in American Culture in 1991. He
is the author of Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism,
and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1900-1922 (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997) and assorted articles
on American radicalism. He is now engaged in a study
of the interplay between political aspirations and
aesthetic designs in 1960s rock'n'roll.
