Monthly Archives: March 2018

Pet Sounds – Beach Boys (1966)

Posted on March 30, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966. … The album was produced and arranged by Brian Wilson, who also wrote and composed almost all of its music. Most … Continue reading →

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Ulysses – Joseph Strick (1967)

Posted on March 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When Sylvia Beach made the brave decision to publish Ulysses in February 1922, it met with a hostile reception. A small plaque on Rue de l’Odéon honours the Parisian publishers, Shakespeare and Company, who were more than a little surprised … Continue reading →

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Yorkville

Posted on March 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When I say Yorkville, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Hippies? Free love? Psychedelic rock? Unlikely these days. Now the area is a high end shopping haven. Home to the ‘Mink Mile,’ the neighbourhood is home to some … Continue reading →

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Kudzu, Mississippi’s Radical Underground Newspaper, 1968-1972

Posted on March 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Subterranean News from the Heart of Old Dixie,’ the radical counterculture newspaper published 1968-1972 in Jackson, Mississippi, presented by the Student News Project. The Kudzu was among the first underground papers published in the Deep South… in easily the last … Continue reading →

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Women’s studies

Posted on March 28, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Florence Howe, founder of the Feminist Press, teaching a class. “Women’s studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women’s lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and … Continue reading →

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I Served in Vietnam. Here’s My Soundtrack.

Posted on March 26, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Former WRVA News Anchor Paul Bottoms worked with Armed Forces Radio in Saigon. “‘Vietnam.’ The word comes camouflaged in music. Rock ’n’ roll, soul, pop and country. For those who watched the war unfold on the evening news, the music … Continue reading →

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Ghost stations Berlin

Posted on March 26, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Bahnhof-Siemensstadt “Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin‘s U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin’s division during the Cold … Continue reading →

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The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

Posted on March 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Installation view, The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now “This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, a large-scale group exhibition that links … Continue reading →

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War and Peace in the Global Village – Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1968)

Posted on March 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“War and Peace in the Global Village by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore is a collage of images and text that illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan used James Joyce‘s Finnegans Wake as … Continue reading →

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Cloud Nine – The Temptations (1969)

Posted on March 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Cloud Nine is the ninth studio album by American musical group The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label released in 1969. The album is a watershed for several reasons. It is the first regular Temptations studio LP to feature Dennis … Continue reading →

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The Yage Letters – William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg (1963)

Posted on March 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It was issued by City Lights Books. Most of the letters date back to 1953 … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis

Posted on March 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A mural of Angela Davis at the Abode of Chaos Museum in France. “Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s … Continue reading →

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Anderson Theater

Posted on March 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Unlike the former Fillmore East two blocks north, there is no plaque at 66 Second Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets to honor the Anderson Theater. The forgotten Anderson kicked off with a series of rock concerts sponsored by Crawdaddy … Continue reading →

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A Photo That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War

Posted on March 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the national police chief of South Vietnam, executed a Vietcong fighter, Nguyen Van Lem, in Saigon on Feb. 1, 1968. “Fifty years ago today, the national police chief of South Vietnam calmly approached a prisoner in the … Continue reading →

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The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson

Posted on March 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The house, on an island in Maine, perches on a rock at the edge of the sea like the aerie of an eagle. Below the white-railed back porch, the sea-slick rock slopes down to a lumpy low tideland of eelgrass … Continue reading →

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Pilot Pirx fictional character – Stanisław Lem (1966)

Posted on March 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Pilot Pirx is a fictional character introduced in 1966 in the science fiction stories of Polish writer Stanisław Lem: ten short stories (published in English in two parts, 1979’s Tales of Pirx the Pilot and 1982’s More Tales of Pirx … Continue reading →

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Ten-Point Program

Posted on March 22, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Ten-Point Program, or The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Ten-Point Platform and Program, is a set of guidelines to the Black Panther Party and states their ideals and ways of operation, a ‘combination of a Bill of Rights and … Continue reading →

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50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968

Posted on March 22, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

An American lieutenant carried a wounded South Vietnamese Ranger to an ambulance in February 1968, during the Tet offensive. “It was freezing on New Year’s Eve in Manhattan. A fresh layer of snow blanketed the ground on the night of … Continue reading →

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Czech New Wave

Posted on March 21, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Czech New Wave directors including Vera Chytilova (center), Milos Forman (second from right), Evald Schorm (to his left), and Jiri Menzel (far right). “The Czechoslovak New Wave was a movement in cinema beginning in 1963 and lasting until the end … Continue reading →

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Astral Weeks – Van Morrison (1968)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Astral Weeks is the second studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was recorded at Century Sound Studios in New York City during three sessions in September and October 1968, although most participants and biographers agree that the … Continue reading →

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Summer’68 – John Douglas (1968)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Draft resistance organizing in Boston, a Boston organizer’s trip to North Vietnam — a GI. coffeehouse in Texas, Newsreel’s take over of Channel 13 in New York — following the production of the Rat’s special issue on Chicago — and … Continue reading →

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Black Bear Ranch

Posted on March 18, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Black Bear Ranch is an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California, about 25 miles from Forks of Salmon. It was founded in 1968, with the slogan ‘free land for free people’. It has been considered by some participants … Continue reading →

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Simone de Beauvoir

Posted on March 18, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (/də ˈboʊˌvwɑːr/ or /də ˌboʊˈvwɑːr/;[2] French pronunciation: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ( listen); 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not … Continue reading →

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On the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre

Posted on March 18, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mosaic at the memorial at My Lai “Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre. On the morning of March 16, 1968, American forces entered the village and gathered up all living things: elderly men and women, infants … Continue reading →

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The Bobby Kennedy Pathway

Posted on March 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Robert Kennedy campaigning in Philadelphia in 1968. “… But a half-century ago, a champion of civil rights offered a third approach: a liberalism without elitism and a populism without racism. In a remarkable 82-day campaign, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ran … Continue reading →

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Enter Digital Archives of the 1960s Fluxus Movement and Explore the Avant-Garde Art of John Cage, Yoko Ono, John Cale, Nam June Paik & More

Posted on March 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When it comes to the influence of the arts on everyday life, it can seem like our reality derives far more from Jeff Koons’ ‘augmented banality‘ than from the Fluxus movement’s playful experiments with chance operations, conceptual rigor, and improvisatory … Continue reading →

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The Deadly Affair – Sidney Lumet (1966)

Posted on March 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage–thriller film, based on John le Carré‘s first novel Call for the Dead. The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and Maximilian Schell and was directed by Sidney Lumet from a … Continue reading →

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#4 – 1963: Surfin’ Bird – The Trashmen

Posted on March 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1963: ‘Surfin’ Bird’ is a song performed by American surf rock band The Trashmen, and it is also the name of the album that featured this hit single. The song was released in 1963 and reached No. 4 on the … Continue reading →

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Vietnam War Hearing: John Kerry Testimony – Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)

Posted on March 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans testified to war crimes committed … Continue reading →

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The Comedians – Graham Greene (1966)

Posted on March 15, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene. Set in Haiti under the rule of François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier and his secret police, the Tonton Macoute, the novel explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an … Continue reading →

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Twiggy

Posted on March 15, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model in swinging sixties London. Twiggy was initially known … Continue reading →

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“7th Game : 1960 Series” – Paul Blackburn

Posted on March 14, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Paul Blackburn performed his poem ‘7th Game : 1960 Series,’ written in 1960, on or near the first day of the 1971 baseball season, during a reading he gave at SUNY Cortland. The poem was later republished in Blackburn’s Collected … Continue reading →

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Surrealistic Pillow – Jefferson Airplane (1967)

Posted on March 13, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor (LSP-3766 [stereo] and LPM-3766 [mono]). It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer … Continue reading →

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The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X

Posted on March 11, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A historic voice in the 1960s civil rights movement, Malcolm X was and continues to be a fascinating yet controversial figure. During his life, he gave voice to the anger and frustration that African Americans experienced during the tumultuous 1950s … Continue reading →

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On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Moment In Time – Guy Debord (1959)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The spoken commentary includes a large portion of detourned phrases, drawn indiscriminately from classic thinkers, a science-fiction novel, and the worst pop sociologists. In order to go against the usual documentary practice regarding spectacular scenery, each time that the camera … Continue reading →

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Mekong Delta

Posted on March 11, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Viet Cong meet the enemy face-to-face, most likely in the Mekong Delta or Plain of Reeds. “The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, ‘Nine Dragon river delta’ or simply Vietnamese: Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, ‘Mekong river delta’), … Continue reading →

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Helix

Posted on March 11, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Helix was an American biweekly newspaper founded in 1967 after a series of organizational meetings held at the Free University of Seattle involving a large and eclectic group including Paul Dorpat, Tom Robbins, Lorenzo Milam and others from KRAB-FM, … Continue reading →

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The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien

Posted on March 10, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. “The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar … Continue reading →

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Breathless – Jean-Luc Godard (1960)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Breathless (French: À bout de souffle; ‘out of breath’) is a 1960 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in his feature directorial debut about a wandering criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg). It was Godard’s … Continue reading →

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15 Photos of Life in Saigon During The Vietnam War

Posted on March 9, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Tran Hung Dao Street, in District 1 “Saigon in the 1960s was the capital of America’s global proxy war to counter the ‘domino effect’ of spreading communism, the focal point of the battle between ideologies. Most of the fighting, however, … Continue reading →

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