Monthly Archives: January 2022

Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry (1967)

Posted on January 31, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Money, Mississippi, has a population of about 100. The settlement is famous for two things. One is real: in 1955, a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, was lynched, a murder referred to in songs by The Staple Singers and Bob Dylan. … Continue reading →

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Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Posted on January 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It was convenient for John Ashbery, and dumb luck for me, that I was living in Rochester and could pick him up at the airport whenever he arrived from New York to visit his mother. Sometimes, because he didn’t like … Continue reading →

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Jimbo’s Bop City

Posted on January 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bop City (also known as Jimbo’s Bop City) was a jazz club operated by John ‘Jimbo’ Edwards in San Francisco from 1949 to 1965. It was situated in the back room of a Victorian house at 1690 Post Street, in … Continue reading →

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Post-structuralism

Posted on January 28, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Meaning might be ceaselessly deferred along a signifying chain … cog-dog-log … without any possibility of an ultimate destination. “Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, … Continue reading →

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An Introduction To The American Underground Film (1967)

Posted on January 28, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“This is the fourth entry in my continuing series on classic texts on underground filmmaking. Previous entries are: Midnight Movies by J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum; Movie Journal: The Rise Of The New American Cinema 1959-1971 by Jonas Mekas; and … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan: Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar by Jack Newfield (January 1967)

Posted on January 27, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Viet­nam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes from Bob Dylan scrawled on the peeling walls. Students at the University of California have organized a non-credit seminar … Continue reading →

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Edward Albee’s Vortex of Violence (January 18, 1964)

Posted on January 25, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

In this May 2, 1967, file photo, playwright Edward Albee, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for drama, for his play “A Delicate Balance,” talks to reporters during a news conference at the Cherry Lane Theater in the Greenwich Village … Continue reading →

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Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (1962-1965)

Posted on January 24, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In February of 1962 I was sitting in Stanley’s Bar at 12th and B with some friends from the Catholic Worker. We’d just seen Jonas Mekas’s movie Guns of the Trees, and I announced I was going to publish a … Continue reading →

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Did John F. Kennedy and the Democrats Steal the 1960 Election?

Posted on January 24, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy debate during the 1960 election. “For Richard Nixon, the holiday season of 1960 was a sullen affair. Weeks before, on Nov. 8, he had lost an exceedingly close presidential election to Senator John F. … Continue reading →

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Foreword to Ariel: The Restored Edition written by Frieda Hughes

Posted on January 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Restored Edition of Ariel by my mother, Sylvia Plath, exactly follows the arrangement of her last manuscript as she left it. As her daughter I can only approach it, and its divergence from the first United Kingdom publication of … Continue reading →

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Jajouka Or Joujouka? The Conflicted Legacy Of The Master Musicians

Posted on January 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Telephone Man’ was a gimbri player who used to play in the village of Joujouka (just as often spelled Jajouka), decades before mobile phones finally connected the hilltop base to the outside world around ten years ago. He would visit … Continue reading →

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Crawdaddy

Posted on January 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Crawdaddy was an American rock music magazine launched in 1966. It was created by Paul Williams, a Swarthmore College student at the time, in response to the increasing sophistication and cultural influence of popular music. The magazine was named after … Continue reading →

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Ronnie Spector: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Posted on January 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Publicity photo of the Ronettes—Nedra Talley, Veronica Bennett (Ronnie Spector) and Estelle Bennett “On Wednesday, in the hours after Ronnie Spector’s family announced her passing from cancer at seventy-eight, I played, on loop, her cover of the Johnny Thunders punk … Continue reading →

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When Martin Luther King Came to Harlem

Posted on January 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Less than a year before his assassination, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. came to Harlem. In the June 22, 1967, Village Voice, contributor Marlene Nadle observed the crowd anxiously awaiting the Baptist minister’s arrival: ‘Using programs folded accordion style instead … Continue reading →

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Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater

Posted on January 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Yvonne Rainer, We Shall Run, 1963 performed March 7, 1965 at the Wadsworth Atheneum “Twelve performers stand still onstage. A minute passes, then another. You sit there watching, waiting for the dancing to begin. After what feels like an interminable … Continue reading →

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Totem Press, Yugen – Imamu Amiri Baraka

Posted on January 16, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Charles Olson, Projective Verse (1959). Cover by Matsumi Kanemitsu. “On the same small offset press, and as an arm of his magazine Yugen, LeRoi Jones’s Totem Press imprint published thirteen pamphlets, beginning with Diane di Prima’s This Kind of Bird … Continue reading →

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A Huge Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (1920-2007) Featuring John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart & More

Posted on January 14, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“If you’ve taken any introductory course or even read any introductory books on music, you’ll almost certainly have heard it described as ‘organized sound.’ Fair enough, but then what do you call disorganized sound? Why, noise of course. And all … Continue reading →

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Topaz – Alfred Hitchcock (1969)

Posted on January 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It’s perfectly apparent from its opening sequence that no one except Alfred Hitchcock, the wise, round, supremely confident storyteller, is in charge of ‘Topaz,’ the film that opened yesterday at the Cinerama Theater. ‘Topaz,’ the code name for a Russian … Continue reading →

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FLATWARE: Alex Kitnick on In Memory of My Feelings—Frank O’Hara, 1961

Posted on January 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Jasper Johns, In Memory of My Feelings—Frank O’Hara, 1961, oil on canvas with objects, two panels, overall 40 × 59 3⁄4″. “I always assumed that Jasper Johns painted In Memory of My Feelings—Frank O’Hara, 1961, to memorialize the poet whose … Continue reading →

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On Revolution – Hannah Arendt (1963)

Posted on January 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On Revolution is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt presents a comparison of two of the main revolutions of the eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions. Twelve years after the publication of her The Origins of … Continue reading →

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The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America

Posted on January 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Then Illinois governor Otto Kerner, left, and New York mayor John Lindsay report on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in October 1967. “A young African-American is killed by a white police officer in full view of others. Angry … Continue reading →

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“Sonny’s Blues” – James Baldwin (1957)

Posted on January 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Sonny’s Blues’ is a 1957 short story written by James Baldwin, originally published in Partisan Review. The story contains the recollections of a black algebra teacher in 1950s Harlem as he reacts to his brother Sonny’s drug addiction, arrest, and … Continue reading →

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Philip Glass – Two Pages / Contrary Motion / Music in Fifths / Music in Similar Motion (1969-1971)

Posted on January 9, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Philip Glass sound is easily caricatured in the minds of some listeners: a few minor-key notes are rattled off, and then repeated. By proposing to leave it at that, the composer’s critics reveal they haven’t listened to very much … Continue reading →

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Cafe Au Go Go

Posted on January 8, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Cafe Au Go Go was a Greenwich Village night club located in the basement of the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre building in the late 1960s, and located at 152 Bleecker Street in Manhattan, New York City. The club … Continue reading →

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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems – Michael Ondaatje (1970)

Posted on January 6, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems is a verse novel by Michael Ondaatje, published in 1970. It chronicles and interprets important events in the life of William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, and his conflict with Sheriff … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to E.A.T. – Engineers, the Avant-Garde and a Tennis Court

Posted on January 5, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Set of Documentation of the Workings of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) between 1966 and 1968 “On March 18th, 1960, a sculpture on the roof of New York’s Museum of Modern Art began to destroy itself. Engines attached to … Continue reading →

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Edie Sedgwick: The life and death of the Sixties star

Posted on January 5, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Factory Girl Edie Sedgwick Painting, Dane Shue “‘Her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls…’ With three nouns, in ‘Just Like a Woman’ (said to have been inspired by her), Bob Dylan deftly summed up his friend Edie Sedgwick, the wayward … Continue reading →

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“Stand by Your Man” – Tammy Wynette (1968)

Posted on January 4, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Stand by Your Man’ is a song recorded by American country music artist Tammy Wynette, co-written by Wynette with Billy Sherrill. It was released on September 20, 1968 as the first single and title track from the album Stand by … Continue reading →

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When The Angels – and 400,000 others – said Goodbye to Brian Jones.

Posted on January 2, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“His was the driving sitar on ‘Paint It, Black,’ the syncopated marimba on ‘Under My Thumb.’ Brian Jones, progenitor of the Rolling Stones, died 50 years ago today, drowned in his swimming pool not long after frontman Mick Jagger and … Continue reading →

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I Knew Her Well – Antonio Pietrangeli (1965)

Posted on January 2, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“If there’s anything as thrilling as discovering something new and good, it’s rediscovering something old and great. And the most exciting movie I’ve come across in the past few months—I Knew Her Well by Antonio Pietrangeli—was made in 1965. While … Continue reading →

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Middle-earth

Posted on January 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien‘s fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the human-inhabited world, that … Continue reading →

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