Monthly Archives: March 2023

The ever-present influence of Frank O’Hara’s poetry on popular culture

Posted on March 31, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Alongside poets such as Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara was a leading figure in the New York School of Poets, active during the 1950s and 1960s. As an art curator at the Museum of Modern Art, … Continue reading →

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Cultural Revolution: The Watts Renaissance

Posted on March 30, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Inner City Cultural Center The Art of Creative Survival: “During the 1960s and 1970s black Los Angeles produced dozens of cultural groupings that sought both to foster a new art and to generate a new relationship between creativity and community. … Continue reading →

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Friends of the Earth

Posted on March 29, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 73 countries. The organization was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower’s split with the Sierra Club … Continue reading →

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Robert Rauschenberg

Posted on March 28, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The property “Robert Rauschenberg worked in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance, over the span of six decades. He emerged on the American art scene at the time that Abstract Expressionism was dominant, and … Continue reading →

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Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey (1962)

Posted on March 28, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey‘s second novel, published in 1964. While One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) is arguably more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey’s magnum opus. The story involves an Oregon family … Continue reading →

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The Midnight Hour: The Watts Uprising – Mike Davis

Posted on March 26, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1965 will be the longest and hottest and bloodiest year of them all. It has to be, not because you want it to be, or I want it to be, or we want it to be, but because the conditions … Continue reading →

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The Newsreel

Posted on March 25, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Newsreel, most frequently called Newsreel, was an American filmmaking collective founded in New York City in late 1967. In keeping with the radical student/youth, antiwar and Black power movements of the time, the group explicitly described its purpose as … Continue reading →

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Yvonne Rainer – Decade of Radical Experimentation

Posted on March 24, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“As someone cursed with the wayward gait of a drunk learning to ice-skate, I’m prone to thinking of dancers as a special, slightly frightening breed of magical creature, like the earthly descendants of certain birds. How, then, to make sense … Continue reading →

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Ann Beat, “Junkie Culture ,” excerpted from Books and Bookmen, November 1963.

Posted on March 23, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Norman Mailer describes Burroughs as ‘the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius.’ An odd offshoot of the adding machine family, he lives in a squalid Paris room where he appeared to the Observer as … Continue reading →

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Nоva – Samuel R. Delany (1968)

Posted on March 22, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Nоva is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany and published in 1968. Nominally space opera, it explores the politics and culture of a future where cyborg technology is universal (the novel is one of the precursors … Continue reading →

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