Monthly Archives: December 2021

The Price of Power: Kissinger, Nixon, and Chile – Seymour M. Hersh

Posted on December 31, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… Admiral [Rembrandt] Robinson was the liaison officer between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, and his office was a sensitive one: the White House’s most highly classified documents, including intelligence materials, routinely flowed through it. … Continue reading →

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Olson, tape, noise

Posted on December 30, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In response to a request to record his reading at Goddard College on April 12, 1959 (made available by the Slought Foundation and PennSound), Charles Olson quipped about the apparatus in front of him: ‘What happens if it just goes … Continue reading →

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Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last

Posted on December 29, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

On March 6, 1963, John Coltrane and his quartet recorded at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey. The session was never released — until now. “If you heard the John Coltrane Quartet live in the early-to-mid-1960s, you were … Continue reading →

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Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth – R. Buckminster Fuller (1969)

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

“Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1969, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington … Continue reading →

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Caterpillar: ‘A magazine of the leaf, a gathering of the tribes’

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

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Joan Didion (1934 – 2021)

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

“Joan Didion (/ˈdɪdiən/; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer who launched her career in the 1960s after winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged … Continue reading →

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Greenwich Village Theater in the 1960s

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

“… In the 1950s, the West Village and, later, the newly designated, edgier East Village (rebranded from the northern part of the Lower East Side around 1964) became the cradle of New York’s Beat generation, with its new, raw, and … Continue reading →

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Fire Music: a history of the free jazz revolution

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

“One default reaction to the musical form called ‘free jazz’ — Ornette Coleman’s phrase for this improvised, experimental style of jazz — has long been that it’s ‘not music.’ This concise but cogent documentary directed by Tom Surgal is crammed … Continue reading →

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy – Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

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

“The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction–influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a … Continue reading →

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The Rise of a New American Cinema, 1959 – 1971 – Jonas Mekas

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

“Back in the day when I was an aspiring young artist, one of my bibles was a well-worn copy (gotten at the late-great independent bookstore Paperbacks Unlimited) of Movie Journal, a collection of columns by filmmaker/impresario Jonas Mekas that had … Continue reading →

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Inside Stockhausen’s WDR Studio for Electronic Music

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

Stockhausen’s sound engineer Volker Müller demonstrating a high pass/low pass filter. “For the average Cologne native, there are only two reasons to end up at the tram station Butzweilerhof/Alter Flughafen: either you’re intending to buy Swedish DIY furniture, or you … Continue reading →

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Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle – d.a. levy

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

“As poet, artist and publisher, d.a. levy was an important literary and underground figure in Cleveland’s emerging poetry and small/alternative press scene in the early 1960s and continued to be until his untimely death in 1968. levy documented his love-hate … Continue reading →

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Oz

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

“Oz was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of Oz was published in London from 1967. The Australian magazine was published … Continue reading →

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Marguerite Duras

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

“Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) is one of France’s most important and interesting intellectual figures. She excelled at being a writer, filmmaker and dramatist. After the Second World War she also worked for a number of years as a journalist for France-Observateur. … Continue reading →

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Reggae originated Jamaica 1960s

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

“Reggae (/ˈrɛɡeɪ/) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, ‘Do the Reggay‘ was the … Continue reading →

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The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (2021), The History of Jazz (2021) – Ted Gioia

Posted on December 14, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A few days ago, the revised and expanded edition of my book The Jazz Standards was published by Oxford University Press. I’ve never had more fun writing a book than in creating this guide to the jazz repertoire—which covers 267 … Continue reading →

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Irreconcilable Truths of Our Evolution: On Stanisław Lem’s The Truth and Other Stories

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

“One cannot overstate how profoundly our relationship with computers has changed since the mid-twentieth century. Once upon a time, the notion of a mechanical brain was as alien as the notion of, well, an alien. Similar to research of extraterrestrial … Continue reading →

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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo – Mary Douglas (1966)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A sharp, comparative analysis of symbolic boundary maintenance across times and cultures, Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger intervened in the anthropology of religion and ritual, as well as in the theoretical development of the field as a whole. It is a key … Continue reading →

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Frantz Fanon quotes that resonate 60 years later

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

“Frantz Fanon, the Martiniquan born psychiatrist, committed Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker, died 60 years ago on 6 December 1961 just after the publication of his last book, The Wretched of the Earth. To mark this 60th anniversary, Nigel C … Continue reading →

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“Burroughs Is a Poet Too, Really”: The Poetics of Minutes to Go

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

“The long and intimate association of William Burroughs with poets is well known: Ginsberg, most obviously, as well as Corso, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, Leroi Jones, John Giorno, and so on. But to talk of Burroughs’ own material engagement with poetic form … Continue reading →

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Recollections of Gran Apachería – Ed Dorn (1974)

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

“… Those years, the early to mid-seventies, were years of intense, blazing clarity for [Ed] Dorn. Gunslinger and 1974’s lyrical analysis of the Apaches last years of ‘external resistance’, Recollections of Gran Apacheria, represented the poet writing in such a … Continue reading →

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Enter The Dream House of La Monte Young: the avant-garde pioneer who inspired The Velvet Underground

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

“Walk along Church Street, just south of New York’s Tribeca Grand Hotel, and you’ll notice an iridescent pink glow emanating from the third floor of number 275, an apartment known to those who care to ask as The Dream House. … Continue reading →

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Deborah Jowitt on Jill Johnston

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

Al Giese’s contact sheet of Jill Johnson and Robert Morris, New York, March 3, 1965. “Jill Johnston was one of my most influential teachers, but I never told her that. In 1959, she began to write a radical, erudite, slangy … Continue reading →

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The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)

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

“The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot concerns a character whose dreams alter past and present reality. The story was serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing … Continue reading →

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Pierrot le Fou – Jean-Luc Godard (1965)

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

“Pierrot le Fou (pronounced [pjɛʁo lə fu], French for ‘Crazy Pierrot’) is a 1965 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. It … Continue reading →

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Jack Spicer: Checklist

Posted on December 4, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Although known primarily among a coterie of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time of his death in 1965, Jack Spicer has slowly become a towering figure in American poetry. He was born in Los Angeles in … Continue reading →

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What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

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

JFK’s murder was most foul, and that event paved the way, in Dylan’s mind, for the process of long decay, the rootlessness and suspicion, that we have lived since then. “Not long after Covid-19 began its insidious spread, Bob Dylan … Continue reading →

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Why Basketball’s Greatest Decade was the 1960s

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

Lew Alcindor at Power Memorial, NYC “The ’60s was clearly the best era. Why? Only 9 teams in a nation of basketball players. If you drove thru every suburb, there was a hoop in EVERY driveway. Society put endless pressure … Continue reading →

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Franklin Rosemont

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

“Franklin Rosemont (2 October 1943 – 12 April 2009) was an American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. Over four decades, Franklin produced a body of work, of declarations, manifestos, poetry, collage, hidden histories, … Continue reading →

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