Monthly Archives: April 2020

The Invincible – Stanisław Lem (1964)

Posted on April 30, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Invincible (Polish: Niezwyciężony) is a hard science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, published in 1964. The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem’s collection Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania (‘The Invincible and Other Stories’). … A … Continue reading →

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Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media

Posted on April 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“John McMillian’s new book, ‘Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America,’ is a lively account of an oft-overlooked aspect of the anti-war movement: the hundreds of radical underground newspapers that proliferated—and then promptly … Continue reading →

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Lightnin’ Hopkins

Posted on April 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Samuel John ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. … Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas, and as a child was immersed in the … Continue reading →

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Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado (1967)

Posted on April 27, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Tent of Miracles (Portuguese: Tenda dos Milagres) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1967 and published the following year. … Tent of Miracles was written three years after the military overthrew Brazilian democracy, and … Continue reading →

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The Odyssey of Captain Beefheart – Rolling Stone (1970)

Posted on April 26, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Uh oh, the phone,’ Captain Beefheart mumbled as he placed his tarnished soprano saxophone in its case. ‘I have to answer the telephone.’ It was a very peculiar thing to say. The phone had not rung. Beefheart walked quickly from … Continue reading →

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Some/thing – Jerome Rothenberg/David Antin (1965–68)

Posted on April 25, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“David Antin’s first separate book was in preparation at Hawk’s Well Press (Definitions was ultimately published by Caterpillar in 1967) when he joined with veteran poet and editor Jerome Rothenberg to create Some/thing. The first issue, published by Rothenberg’s Hawk’s … Continue reading →

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New York Mets: 1962–1966

Posted on April 24, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Manager Casey Stengel theatrically pointing the way at the start of spring training in 1962. “The history of the New York Mets began in 1962 when the team was introduced as part of the National League‘s first expansion of the … Continue reading →

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Alice’s Restaurant – Arthur Penn (1969)

Posted on April 23, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Alice’s Restaurant is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song ‘Alice’s Restaurant Massacree‘, originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie. The film stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn … Continue reading →

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Velvet Underground – 1969: The Velvet Underground Live (1972), Live at Matrix 1969 (2015)

Posted on April 22, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1969: The Velvet Underground Live is a live album by the Velvet Underground. It was originally released as a double album in September 1974 by Mercury Records. … During 1969, the Velvet Underground toured the United States and Canada, playing … Continue reading →

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Samuel Beckett – Film (1965 short film)

Posted on April 21, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Film is a 1965 short film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days. A second draft was … Continue reading →

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Beauvoir on Feminism

Posted on April 20, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Simone de Beauvoir is a feminist icon. She didn’t just write the feminist book, she wrote the movement’s bible, The Second Sex. She was an engaged intellectual who combined philosophical and literary productivity with real-world political action that led to … Continue reading →

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Robert Smithson

Posted on April 19, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty. … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Mime Troupe

Posted on April 18, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mime Troupe flyer for Tartuffe, mid-1960s “The San Francisco Mime Troupe is San Francisco’s critically acclaimed and oldest professional political musical theater. It began in 1959 when Ronald G. Davis formed the R.G. Davis Mime Troupe while affiliated with the … Continue reading →

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Russell Tribunal

Posted on April 17, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Nine-year-old Do Van Ngoc exhibits injuries from napalm in Vietnam. “The Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal, Russell-Sartre Tribunal, or Stockholm Tribunal, was a private People’s Tribunal organised in 1966 by Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and … Continue reading →

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Best Psychedelic Albums: 30 Essential Records To Expand Your Mind

Posted on April 16, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Look up the word ‘psychedelic’ in the dictionary, and one of the first definitions will be ‘mind expanding’. That’s what all of the best psychedelic albums have in common. Most were made during the golden era of 1966-1968, but quite … Continue reading →

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THE MOVEMENT

Posted on April 15, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… For six years during that era, a small-circulation newspaper, THE MOVEMENT, was published each month in San Francisco and distributed nationwide. At its peak, it produced a 25,000 copy press run with 2,500 paid subscriptions. Of the many “underground … Continue reading →

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The Caretaker – Harold Pinter (1960)

Posted on April 14, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Caretaker is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers and … Continue reading →

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Algeria’s forgotten revolutionary history

Posted on April 13, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Ben Bella in Havana with Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the Bissau-Guinean armed struggle against colonial Portugal, once said about Algiers: ‘The Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Christians to the Vatican, and … Continue reading →

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Ken Kesey’s Buchla Box

Posted on April 13, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Ken Kesey’s PA Controller, photo credit Don Kennedy, National Music Centre, Studio Bell. “In the mid to late sixties, counterculture was in full swing, and the momentum that was getting behind the ‘High Tide’ (as Hunter S. Thompson called it) … Continue reading →

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Broadside (magazine)

Posted on April 12, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Broadside magazine was a small mimeographed publication founded in 1962 by Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen. Hugely influential in the folk-revival, it was often controversial. Issues of what is folk music, what is folk rock, and who … Continue reading →

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The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (1975)

Posted on April 10, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Toward the end of his short life, Jack Spicer began to relax some of his purist principles about the publication and circulation of his poetry. In 1964, impoverished and unable to hold down a job, he consented to allow Lawrence … Continue reading →

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Frodo Lives

Posted on April 9, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It was a time of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Not to mention protest against the Vietnam War and marches for civil rights and the women’s movement. Who would think a figurehead for this social upheaval would be a … Continue reading →

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Fifty Years of Activist Art by Emory Douglas

Posted on April 8, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“#BlackLivesMatter—the movement, not just the hashtag—is the most significant broad-based human rights coalition for black Americans since the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The struggle today could not be fought in its current iterations without the contributions of artist … Continue reading →

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The Last Picture Show – Peter Bogdanovich (1971)

Posted on April 7, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Last Picture Show (1971) is an evocative and bittersweet slice-of-life ‘picture show’ from young newcomer, 31 year-old director Peter Bogdanovich, formerly a stage actor and film writer/critic. The screenplay was based on the novel of the same name by … Continue reading →

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Chicago 1968: The Whole World Is Watching chronicles the chaos of the infamous DNC convention

Posted on April 7, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“One afternoon a little more than 50 years ago, the photographer Michael Cooper wandered into the bar at the Chateau Marmont in LA and happened to run into a friend, the writer Terry Southern. Southern had time for just one … Continue reading →

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How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism – Robert Stone

Posted on April 6, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Leroy won a George Polk Award in 1967 for her photographs of Vietnam. “In 1971, during the rainy season, I was sitting in a room in an old-fashioned French hotel in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. It was evening and darkness … Continue reading →

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Big Brother & The Holding Company – Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968

Posted on April 5, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fly on the psychedelic wall: The Bear’s sonic journals snag a masterpiece… Somewhere within the sonic depths of this extraordinary concert tape’s opener, ‘Combination of the Two,’ as James Gurley’s distorted guitar angles toward a kind of demented Coltrane-like climax, … Continue reading →

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31 literary icons of Greenwich Village

Posted on April 4, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Streetview of 81 Horatio Street, where Baldwin lived from 1958 to 1961 “Greenwich Village, specifically the historic district at its core, has been described as many things, but ‘literary’ may be among the most common. That’s not only because the … Continue reading →

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The Game of War: Debord as Strategist

Posted on April 3, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon/Amsterdam, 1963. “The only member of the Situationist International to remain at its dissolution in 1972 was Guy Debord (1931–1994). He is often held to be synonymous with the movement, but anti-Debordist accounts rightly stress the role … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Romance of City Lights

Posted on April 2, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Black and white and read all over, City Lights’ Pocket Poets books were a depth charge in the American mind, back in the Eisenhower ’50s. Part of the literary explosion known as the San Francisco Renaissance, they blew wide a … Continue reading →

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Pop art

Posted on April 1, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too…But… – Roy Lichtenstein (1964) “Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art … Continue reading →

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