Monthly Archives: June 2023

Change: #1, Fall/Winter 1965: Archie Shepp

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

“CHANGE was a magazine designed to take on the overflow of reviews and information that couldn’t be handled in issues of Work that now became almost too thick to be stapled. The emphasis in CHANGE was The New Thing, The … Continue reading →

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Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings – Grateful Dead

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

“Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings is a 10-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains four complete concerts recorded on February 27, February 28, March 1, and March 2, 1969, at the Fillmore West in … Continue reading →

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The Limits of Absurdity By Robert Zaretsky

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

“… On March 25, 1946, the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, having left the rainforests of Brazil for the concrete canyons of New York City, confronted a social structure as complex and harsh as those he had found in the rainforests … Continue reading →

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Tom Clark in conversation with Beat Scene editor Kevin Ring

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

Tom Clark and a stone fence in Vence, France, 25 July 1966 “Kevin Ring: A lot of people will know you, at least in England, as the author of a biography of Jack Kerouac for Harcourt Brace in 1984. How … Continue reading →

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Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most Dangerous Woman In America. Now, Her Son Reconsiders Her Legacy.

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

“Zayd Dohrn still vividly remembers the most striking moment of his childhood. ‘Coming down the stairs in our fifth-floor walk-up in Harlem,’ he told me from his living room in Chicago, ‘seeing these two guys leaning on a car, and … Continue reading →

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Icarus’s Mother – Sam Shepard (1965)

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

Cynthia Harris, Jim Barbosa, Lee Worley, John Kramer, and John Coe in “Icarus’s Mother” Edward Albee wrote for the November 25, 1965, issue of The Village Voice. “For those of you who are busy people, facts first, implications later. (And … Continue reading →

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Nu Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City: Experiments In Latin Music 1970-77

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

“This is the 20th anniversary expanded edition of one of Soul Jazz Records earliest definitive releases: ‘Nu Yorica : Culture Clash In New York City – Experiments in Latin Music 1970-77’, a stunning and ground-breaking collection of music bringing together … Continue reading →

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How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers

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

A distinguished roster of speakers attend the opening day of the General Conference of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in West Berlin June 16, 1960. “‘The past is a foreign country,’ L.P. Hartley famously wrote as he opened The Go–Between. … Continue reading →

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Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker

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

… Edited David E. James “Work on this collection of texts began some three years ago, when we hoped to publish it in 2003 to celebrate Stan Brakhage’s seventieth birthday. Instead, belatedly, it mourns his death. The baby who would … Continue reading →

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Anarchy in Action – Colin Ward (1973)

Posted on June 21, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its … Continue reading →

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Mise en Scene: Downtown Theater Ephemera as Backdrop for William Burroughs’ St. Valentine’s Day Reading and other Lower East Side Adventures of the 1960s

Posted on June 21, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I have never understood the impulse of some Burroughsians to quarantine the life and work of their idol. Why this desire to make Burroughs unique, to focus on his solitary nature, to deny his influences and origins? Me, I want … Continue reading →

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When Afrobeat Legend Fela Kuti Collaborated with Cream Drummer Ginger Baker

Posted on June 19, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“At the end of the 60s, superstar drummer and angriest man in rock Ginger Baker was on the verge of collapse. Strung out on heroin, deeply grieving Jimi Hendrix’s death, and alienated from his former Cream and Blind Faith bandmates, … Continue reading →

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A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings – John Cage (1967)

Posted on June 18, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“At some point, John Cage must have decided he was not going to be one of the world’s great composers so he invented a fallback career for himself. Perhaps it was after Arnold Schoenberg, his teacher, said he was ‘not … Continue reading →

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What Is A Spaghetti Western: The Essential Guide To Spaghetti Westerns

Posted on June 17, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… A spaghetti western is a subgenre of the Western film. They were most common in the 1960s and 1970s. Spaghetti westerns are typically Italian-made Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s. There is no precise definition of a spaghetti … Continue reading →

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Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92

Posted on June 16, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press, surrenders at the U.S. Courthouse in Boston on June 28, 1971, accompanied by his wife at the time, Patricia. “Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar … Continue reading →

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SNCC: The New Abolitionists – Howard Zinn (1964)

Posted on June 15, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“SNCC: The New Abolitionists is a book by Howard Zinn that describes the early years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and their registering of voters in the rural south. This book describes the SNCC, focusing especially on the … Continue reading →

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The People’s Wall

Posted on June 14, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“At a critical time in the 1960s Seattle civil rights movement, the Seattle chapter Black Panther Party (SCBPP) was an active participant in the fight for equity and justice. The chapter was founded in 1968 and was the first chapter … Continue reading →

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Auerhahn Press

Posted on June 13, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“While he was stationed with the Army in Germany during the 1950s, David Haselwood conceived the idea of becoming a publisher. At the time he was corresponding with Michael McClure in San Francisco—who needed a publisher for his Hymns to … Continue reading →

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MoMA Collects: Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions

Posted on June 12, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Slant Board. 1961 “Before moving to New York in 1959, choreographer Simone Forti spent four heady, formative years in San Francisco. There, she trained with the postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin, who rejected the stylistic constraints of ballet and modern … Continue reading →

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Rivendell

Posted on June 11, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 painting of Rivendell “Rivendell is a valley in J. R. R. Tolkien‘s fictional world of Middle-earth, representing both a homely place of sanctuary and a magical Elvish otherworld. It is an important location in The … Continue reading →

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Delaney & Bonnie, “On Tour With Eric Clapton” (1970)

Posted on June 11, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“By the time On Tour with Eric Clapton was released in 1970, the husband/wife pairing of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett could loosely be placed in the category of ‘seasoned veterans’ within the music industry, despite the fact that they had … Continue reading →

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Joan Didion, the Death of R.F.K. and the Solution to a Decades-Old Mystery

Posted on June 9, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Opinion | June 8, 2023: “There’s a well-known passage in the title essay of Joan Didion’s 1979 collection ‘The White Album’ that begins with a litany of 1960s tragedies, including the massacre at My Lai, a harrowing story of child … Continue reading →

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Ingenious librarians

Posted on June 8, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Syracuse University’s SUPARS system was developed by Pauline Atherton as an early antecedent of what we might today call ‘search’. “Throughout an unusually sunny Fall in 1970, hundreds of students and faculty at Syracuse University sat one at a time … Continue reading →

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Robin Blaser: ‘The Holy Forest’ // 2008

Posted on June 7, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Early on in my East Bay ramblings, I found my way into Serendipity Books, on University just up from San Pablo. Sometimes you’re in Ali Baba’s cave and you don’t even realize it. Used to be that every bookman in … Continue reading →

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The Essential Chomsky – Noam Chomsky (2008)

Posted on June 6, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Noam Chomsky: Moral & Social Thinker: “Noam Chomsky is a powerhouse of insightful thought – this book attests to that. So analyzing or even summarizing Anthony Arnove’s The Essential Chomsky is no simple task. A moderately lengthy and notably chronological … Continue reading →

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The Complete Robot – Isaac Asimov (1982)

Posted on June 5, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Why Isn’t There An Audiobook Of The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov?: “… I love to listen to science fiction, so I was disappointed that the first book wasn’t on audio. However, there are three audiobooks available of Asimov’s short … Continue reading →

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Editing pan-Africanism

Posted on June 4, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Frene Ginwala. Author supplied image. “On April 12, 1960, a few weeks after the Sharpeville Massacre, the South African lawyer and journalist Frene Noshir Ginwala arrived in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika. In that year, British-ruled Tanganyika was … Continue reading →

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Completely Well – B. B. King (1969)

Posted on June 3, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… 1. The Thrill Is Gone: King’s signature song was a hit for Roy Hawkins, its co-writer, in 1951, but BB’s ground-up reworking of it reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 and took his popularity to … Continue reading →

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Frank Stella

Posted on June 2, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Hyena Stomp,1962 “There is no question that Frank Stella is one of the seminal figures of American art. One need only look at his rigorously controlled, almost confrontationally flat, gridded, design-oriented paintings of the late ’50s and ’60s to see … Continue reading →

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Without Marx or Jesus: the New American Revolution Has Begun. – Jean-François Revel (1972)

Posted on June 1, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“To judge a book by a Frenchman that has ‘America’ in its title by comparing it with Democracy in America is unfair. Tocqueville’s pair of books enjoy their reputation; Revel’s best-seller, little more than an extended pamphlet, will not be … Continue reading →

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