Monthly Archives: October 2022

The Essential Philip K. Dick

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

“The K stands for ‘Kindred.’ It was a family name, but if there’s anyone who can forgive a fanciful imputation of significance, it is Philip K. Dick. How lovely that a poet of alienation would come into existence bearing that … Continue reading →

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Guy Debord: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Brilliant Crank

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

“This year will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Guy Debord (1931-1994), the filmmaker, revolutionary, writer, and consummate drinker who is most often identified as the secretary and guiding figure of the Situationist International (S.I.), as well as … Continue reading →

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Dissent

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

“Dissent is an American Left intellectual magazine edited by Natasha Lewis and Timothy Shenk and founded in 1954. The magazine is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas. … Continue reading →

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How New Orleans’ Creole Musicians Forged the Fight for Civil Rights

Posted on October 26, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“While New Orleans’ Congo Square is acknowledged as the heart and birthplace of American music, New Orleans’ unique Creole musical community was the engine for what became America’s early civil rights movement. During French and Spanish rule, a combination of … Continue reading →

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The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

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

“The voluminous critical conversation about Sylvia Plath has tended to orbit a few topics: her suicide, of course, and the ways mental illness and madness perhaps predicted her death and marked her poetry; the blazing ferocity of her posthumous masterpiece … Continue reading →

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On The Road: Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation’s Style

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

“Take someone from 70 years ago, drop them on a city street today. Would their style fit in seamlessly with those surrounding them on the sidewalk? Styles change. The best dressed style icons of almost any era—no matter how respected—wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Nat Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017)

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

Nat Hentoff with the clarinetist Edmond Hall in 1948 at the Savoy, a club in Boston. “Nat Hentoff, an author, journalist, jazz critic and civil libertarian who called himself a troublemaker and proved it with a shelf of books and … Continue reading →

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Samizdat Is Russia’ Underground Press

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

Samizdat copies “Censorship existed even be fore literature, say the Russians. And, we may add, censorship being older, literature has to be craftier. Hence, the new and remarkably viable underground press in the Soviet Union called samizdat. The word is … Continue reading →

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The Guggenheim

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

The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1969), who developed the concept of ‘organic architecture’, that a building should develop out of its surroundings. The Guggenheim’s concrete rings allow light into the building to display the exhibits … Continue reading →

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Gandalf

Posted on October 20, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Gandalf is one of many protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien‘s novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien took … Continue reading →

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#13 – “I Fought the Law” – Bobby Fuller Four (1966), Palisades Park – Freddy Cannon (1962), Del Shannon – Runaway (1961), etc.

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

“The song ‘I Fought the Law’ was written in 1959 by singer-songwriter Sonny Curtis, who was with The Crickets. (Curtis played the guitar with The Crickets after Buddy Holly’s death). The song was on their 1960 album In Style with … Continue reading →

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When Segregationists Offered One-Way Tickets to Black Southerners

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

Reverse freedom riders on their way to New England boarded a bus in New Orleans in 1962. “When two planeloads of asylum seekers were flown to Martha’s Vineyard last month, Peola Denham Jr. recognized an echo of his own experience … Continue reading →

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John Ashbery: The Instruction Manual

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

“John Ashbery wrote his first poem when he was 8. It rhymed and made sense (‘The tall haystacks are great sugar mounds/ These are the fairies’ camping grounds’) and the young writer—who had that touch of laziness that sometimes goes … Continue reading →

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Twilight Zone Dispatch: The Last Stop and the Book of Revelation

Posted on October 15, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Clarence Larkin’s commentary on THE BOOK OF REVELATION is written LIKE THIS, crafted with occasional capitalizations to emphasize IMAGES and TERMS. Reading it doesn’t feel like being shouted at but rather kind and intimate, as though he’s DIRECTING our attention … Continue reading →

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Nuyorican movement

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

THE LIFE AND POETRY OF JULIA DE BURGOS, Directed by Jose Garcia Torres, 1979, 28 minutes “The Nuyorican movement is a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent, … Continue reading →

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The Foundations – “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You”, “Build Me Up Buttercup”

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

“The Foundations were a British soul band (m. 1967–1970). The group’s background was: West Indian, White British, and Sri Lankan. Their 1967 debut single ‘Baby Now That I’ve Found You‘ reached number one in the UK and Canada, and number … Continue reading →

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The Urban Lens: From Bob Dylan to Jack Kerouac, see rare photos of the Village’s Beat Generation

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

Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997) (center, with light hair) speaks with an unidentified couple at the top of a stoop next door to the Tanager Gallery (the storefront above the ‘Bar’ sign) on 10th Street, New … Continue reading →

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Belted, Booted and Buckled: B-Movie Title Design of the 1960s

Posted on October 11, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Golden Age of the American B-Movie Title Sequence – Part 2: The End of the Production Code. “The ’60s were a time of change, not only in politics and social norms, but also the arts, and cinema in particular. … Continue reading →

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Harlan Ellison Dies at 84; Prolific, Irascible (Science) Fiction Writer

Posted on October 11, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Harlan Ellison, a furiously prolific and cantankerous writer whose science fiction and fantasy stories reflected a personality so intense that they often read as if he were punching his manual typewriter keys with his fists, died on Wednesday at his … Continue reading →

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Charles Olson: Quicks and Strings by Robin Blaser

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

#8 (June 1995), with 15 letters from Olson to Robin Blaser. “Charles Olson and I first met — head to head — in 1957, at The Tavern, which was, then, a white, weatherboarded, frame building with rooms, a bar-restaurant, and … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Keeping Score – Paul Dickson

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

“I’ve always loved scorekeeping, even though it ended my baseball career. True, my career wasn’t helped by the fact that I was much smaller than all my teammates (where was HGH back then?). Nor did my difficulty making contact with … Continue reading →

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Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70)

Posted on October 7, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Albert Ayler was a mysterious figure. His recording career was relatively brief, beginning in 1962 and ending in 1970, with several of the entries live performances released many years after his passing. His demise itself was a bizarre circumstance. Revenant … Continue reading →

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Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance

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

Yvonne Rainer, 87, photographed in Fort Tryon Park. “In 1966, Yvonne Rainer presented ‘Trio A,’ her celebrated solo that emphasized movement over expression. By stripping dance of narrative, of emotion and even of the dancer’s gaze — there is no … Continue reading →

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Frantz Fanon unveiled

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

“As a child in the 1960s, my mother would routinely pass a secondary school on her way home in downtown Algiers named Lycée Frantz Fanon. To her, the name was quite peculiar, since all the other schools had newly Arabic … Continue reading →

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Desolation Journal By Jack Kerouac

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

“Read any biography of Jack Kerouac and here’s essentially what you’ll learn: that in the summer of 1956 he spent two months in a mountaintop shack as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service in the North Cascades in … Continue reading →

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#7 – Jed Birmingham

Posted on October 3, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It does not matter if you have five books or five thousand, one’s own book collection is inherently the most important and most interesting. These are the books that mean the most to you personally otherwise you would not have … Continue reading →

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The Real Inspector Hound – Tom Stoppard (1966)

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

“The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit. … Continue reading →

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert

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

“Live 1966: The ‘Royal Albert Hall’ Concert is a two-disc live album by Bob Dylan, released in 1998. It is the second installment in the ongoing Bob Dylan Bootleg Series on Legacy Recordings, and has been certified a gold record … Continue reading →

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