Monthly Archives: February 2021

Harry Smith: The Beat Artist Who Rescued Paper Planes from the Streets of NYC

Posted on February 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Every kid appreciates the improbable heights of a well-crafted paper airplane, but rare are the adults who take notice. Prolific 20th-century polymath Harry Smith, who’s best known for his experimental filmmaking but also dabbled in painting, anthropology, music, and the … Continue reading →

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Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stills – Super Session (1968), The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (1968), Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes (1968)

Posted on February 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Super Session is an album by Al Kooper, with guitarists Mike Bloomfield on the first half and Stephen Stills on the second half of the album. Released by Columbia Records in 1968, it peaked at number 12 on the Billboard … Continue reading →

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The Storyteller of Tangier – Mohammed Mrabet / Paul Bowles

Posted on February 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Like many readers, I suspect, I first came across the name Mohammed Mrabet in relation to Paul Bowles. Throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties, everyone from Life magazine to Rolling Stone sent writers and photographers to Tangier—where Bowles had been … Continue reading →

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The Prince of Possibility; The Man Who Turned on the Here: On the Lam in Mexico with Ken Kesey – By Robert Stone

Posted on February 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1964 Ken Kesey was working in a cabin so deep in the redwoods south of San Francisco that its indifferently painted interior walls seemed to grow seaweed instead of mold. Despite its glass doors, the cabin held the winter … Continue reading →

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The Case for Stanislaw Lem, One of Science Fiction’s Unsung Giants

Posted on February 24, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Since his death in 2006, the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem has slowly slid from view. While his impact upon on American audiences was always softened by the Iron Curtain — he was was in peak form … Continue reading →

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Second-Wave Feminism

Posted on February 24, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“For all of its attention-sucking, data-mining downsides, the internet has held true to at least one of its original promises: connecting disparate groups of people. There’s hardly a better reminder of this than a global health crisis and a national … Continue reading →

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The Belated Celebration of the Kamoinge Workshop

Posted on February 22, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Anthony Barboza, Kamoinge Members, 1973 “In 2016, on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of Louis Draper at Steven Kasher Gallery, Hyperallergic critic John Yau asked, ‘Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know about This Great Photographer?’ … Continue reading →

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Paul Simon Deconstructs “Mrs. Robinson” (1970)

Posted on February 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“There’s nothing like having a deadline. When Simon and Garfunkel were called on by director Mike Nichols to provide music for his 1967 comedy The Graduate, the film was already being edited, and the duo were working on the movie … Continue reading →

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Anti-Imperialist Propaganda Posters from OSPAAAL

Posted on February 20, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Nixon Tearing the Heart out of Indochina, 1971. Creator: René Mederos “On January 3, 1966, 513 delegates representing 83 groups from countries across Latin America, Asia, and Africa gathered in Havana, Cuba for the first Tricontinental Conference. The meeting was … Continue reading →

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The Rag

Posted on February 19, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Rag was an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexual revolution, gay liberation, and the drug culture. … Continue reading →

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Paul Blackburn and Das Rhinegold

Posted on February 19, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I had my first Rheingold at the Mars Bar in New York City a few years ago when I was doing a tour of some Old School bars.  In the area around Houston, I walked into Milano’s, the 7B, and … Continue reading →

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Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35 (Spring-Summer 1965)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Simone de Beauvoir had introduced me to Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre, whom I had interviewed. But she hesitated about being interviewed herself: ‘Why should we talk about me? Don’t you think I’ve done enough in my three books of … Continue reading →

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Bill Evans Live in Munch Museum, Oslo (1966 Live)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, ‘singing’ melodic … Continue reading →

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Manchild in the Promised Land – Claude Brown (1965)

Posted on February 16, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land appeared at a pivotal political and cultural moment in the United States fifty years ago. 1965 saw the murder of Malcolm X, the eruption of the Watts uprising, a great escalation of direct … Continue reading →

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The strange history of the East Village’s most famous street

Posted on February 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark’s Place in 1968. “St. Marks Place—the three blocks of East Eighth Street that run from Astor Place to Tompkins Square Park—has become a symbol of the East Village. Head shops serve as … Continue reading →

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Searching for Silence: John Cage’s art of noise. By Alex Ross

Posted on February 13, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

amazon: Silence “On August 29, 1952, David Tudor walked onto the stage of the Maverick Concert Hall, near Woodstock, New York, sat down at the piano, and, for four and a half minutes, made no sound. He was performing ‘4’33”,’ … Continue reading →

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Access to Success – Whole Earth Catalog

Posted on February 13, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bookstore managers didn’t know quite what to make of the oversized 64-page volume that showed up in their stores in the fall of 1968. It was called the ‘Whole Earth Catalog‘ and subtitled ‘Access to Tools.’ For $5, buyers got … Continue reading →

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‘Discredit, disrupt and destroy’: UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

Posted on February 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Members of the Black Panthers lined up at a Free Huey (Newton) rally in DeFremery Park in Oakland. “The status quo — hallowed by hate, sanctioned by Jim Crow — was beginning to crack. Behind the scenes, J. Edgar Hoover’s … Continue reading →

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The Filibuster That Saved the Electoral College

Posted on February 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Senator Birch Bayh “Debates over the filibuster tend to get theoretical fast. It’s there to protect minority interests, defenders say. Without it, majorities will run rampant. Lost in the back-and-forth is the reality of how the tool has been used … Continue reading →

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The Blues Project – Live At The Cafe Au Go Go (1966), Live At Town Hall (1967)

Posted on February 9, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Verve/Folkways and Howard Solomon, entrepreneur of the Cafe Au Go Go in New York’s Greenwich Village, presented a four-day concert series called the ‘Blues Bag.’ The evenings of November 24 through the 27 at the Cafe Au Go Go proved … Continue reading →

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Laugh track

Posted on February 9, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Charles “Charley” Douglass “A laugh track (or laughter track) is a separate soundtrack for a recorded comedy show containing the sound of audience laughter. In some productions, the laughter is a live audience response instead; in the United States, where … Continue reading →

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It ain’t over till it’s over – Michael Herr

Posted on February 8, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Sitting on a garden bench – the sun, dappled by trees, streaming onto the lawn – it all seems impossibly far away. It is impossibly far away. The corpse was the worst thing we’d ever seen, utterly blackened by now, … Continue reading →

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Mémoires – Asger Jorn/Guy Debord (Situationist International, 1959)

Posted on February 6, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Mémoires (Memories) is an artist’s book made by the Danish artist Asger Jorn in collaboration with the French artist and theorist Guy Debord. Printed in 1959, it is the second of two collaborative books by the two men whilst they … Continue reading →

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John Sinclair: ‘We wanted to kick ass – and raise consciousness’

Posted on February 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I meet John Sinclair in a canalside coffeeshop in Amsterdam, where the vibes are mellow, the air perfumed, and the soundtrack a stream of vintage rock songs of the more laidback kind. Compared to slightly self-conscious young pot tourists skinning … Continue reading →

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Yvonne Rainer

Posted on February 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Yvonne Rainer in the “Bach” section of Terrain (1963), Yvonne Rainer. Judson Memorial Church, New York, 1963. “Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and … Continue reading →

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Seattle Liberation Front

Posted on February 3, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Seattle Seven and two of their attorneys in summer 1970, photographer unknown “The Seattle Liberation Front, or SLF, was a radical anti-Vietnam War movement, based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. The group, founded by the University of … Continue reading →

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Northern Soul

Posted on February 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A musical movement born in the industrial North of England, the Northern Soul phenomenon grew out of club-goers passion for black American dance music. It morphed eventually into a craze for rare (and by extension, very expensive) records, and even … Continue reading →

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The Swimmer – Frank Perry (1968)

Posted on February 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Swimmer is a 1968 American surreal drama film starring Burt Lancaster. The film was written and directed by Academy Award-nominated husband-and-wife team of Eleanor Perry (screenplay adaptation) and Frank Perry (director). The story is based on the 1964 short … Continue reading →

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What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now

Posted on February 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I first read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five‘ in 1972, three years after it was published and three years before I published my own first novel. I was twenty-five years old. 1972 was the year of inching slowly toward the Paris Peace Accords, which … Continue reading →

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