Monthly Archives: January 2024

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land – Aimé Césaire, Translated by Clayton Eshleman

Posted on January 30, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is a mixture of prose and lyrical poetry. There isn’t a logical narrative structure to this poem. Instead, the poem consists of abrupt juxtapositions,  shifts within themes and content, and repetition of … Continue reading →

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Pan-Africanism

Posted on January 29, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans … Continue reading →

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Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (1999)

Posted on January 28, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters are World War II–era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park … Continue reading →

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The Counterculture Hippie Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on January 27, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A new identity was born at the start of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. This youth movement criticized consumerism, promoted peace, and yearned for individualism. The 1960s and ‘70s revolutionized pop culture and encouraged social reform. This 20-year … Continue reading →

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Coltrane ’58: Prestige Recordings

Posted on January 26, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“John Coltrane recorded the music for a staggering eight albums in just one year–1958. They were released over the course of the next eight years by Prestige Records, a New York label founded by Bob Weinstock in 1949. In tribute to and … Continue reading →

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Migrant Books – Gael Turnbull Worcester, England, and Ventura, California

Posted on January 25, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Scottish poet Gael Turnbull began Migrant Books by purchasing stock from several presses, including Origin, Jargon, and Divers Press, and his first solo publication was a single mimeographed sheet advertising these publications, which included Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems. In a … Continue reading →

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1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

Posted on January 23, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident (/ˈtuːli/; Danish: Thuleulykken), involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland. The … Continue reading →

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Uno Dos Tres 1-2-3 – Willie Bobo (1966)

Posted on January 22, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Counting To Boogaloo: Willie Bobo’s ‘Uno Dos Tres 1•2•3’ “… In the 1960s, albums comprised either entirely of covers or otherwise largely populated by them ran rampant, and Spanish Harlemite Willie Bobo went with the flow. For the Puerto Rican … Continue reading →

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Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 – Iris Morales

Posted on January 21, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Lifting Up the Struggles of the Mujerxs of the Young Lords Party: Reflections on Iris Morales’ Book: “Iris Morales’ book, Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976 documents the perspective of women cadre in the formation of one … Continue reading →

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60 Minutes

Posted on January 20, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style of … Continue reading →

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A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin Have a Model for Today

Posted on January 19, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Bayard Rustin (R) and A. Philip Randolph (L) listen to Martin Luther King Jr deliver his “How Long, Not Long” speech on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery on March 25, 1965.  “An the mid-1960s, with the … Continue reading →

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Bruce Conner

Posted on January 18, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. … Conner first attracted widespread attention with his moody, nylon-shrouded assemblages, complex amalgams of found objects … Continue reading →

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind – Gregory Bateson (1972)

Posted on January 16, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Within the last decade, environmental concerns have seized public awareness to a previously unachieved degree. Growing public awareness of Earth’s environment is the one slender benefit of the imminent nature of the ecological crises facing our world’s population. Yet although … Continue reading →

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Bossa Nova

Posted on January 16, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Astrud Gilberto performing with Stan Getz. “Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ]) is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a ‘different beat’ that altered … Continue reading →

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Fluxus

Posted on January 15, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to different … Continue reading →

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The Virgin Spring – Ingmar Bergman (1960)

Posted on January 14, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Virgin Spring is a 1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Considered as a precursor of rape and revenge film; set in medieval Sweden, it is a tale about a father’s merciless response to the rape and murder of his … Continue reading →

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A Barthes Reader – Roland Barthes (1982)

Posted on January 13, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… I have been deeply engaged in reading as many books about the French Enlightenment figure: Denis Diderot as my wearied eyes can manage. I love the way his mind is organized around a passionate principle of discursive delights. I … Continue reading →

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Stephen Henderson: Understanding the New Black Poetry (1973), The Militant Black Writer in Africa and the United States (1969)

Posted on January 11, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Stephen Henderson’s provocative essay and Jean Wagner’s matchless study should elicit hurricane of elation (to borrow Margaret Danner’s phrase) from contemporary black poets. Their books are alarms, serving notice that not only have they entered the fray, but that they … Continue reading →

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Band of Gypsys the Jimi Hendrix Experience (1970)

Posted on January 10, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Band of Gypsys is a live album by Jimi Hendrix and the first without his original group, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was recorded on January 1, 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York City with Billy Cox on … Continue reading →

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Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA’s black and brown resistance – Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

Posted on January 8, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The activist Angela Davis with the actor Jane Fonda during a demonstration against the Vietnam war at UCLA. “In August 1965, thousands of young Black people in Watts set fire to the illusion that Los Angeles was a youth paradise. … Continue reading →

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The Literary Legacy of Stanislaw Lem: Beyond “Psychemization”

Posted on January 8, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Science fiction, as William Burroughs once remarked, is our ‘literature of ideas.’ While Burroughs almost certainly meant transformative ideas, to the serious public this has too often been the genre for ideas of a different kind: escapist, overly sentimental, what … Continue reading →

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A Voice Full Of Cities: The Collected Essays Of Robert Kelly (2014), A City Full of Voices (2020)

Posted on January 7, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It is no exaggeration to suggest that Robert Kelly may well be America’s most prolific poet, and certainly one of the most singular and ceaselessly innovative poets the country produced in the 2nd part of the past century. To date, … Continue reading →

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John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy

Posted on January 6, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It is sometimes noted–typically with admiration–that France is a place where a philosopher can still be a celebrity. It sounds laudable. But celebrity culture can be corrosive, both to the culture at large and to the celebrities themselves. So it’s … Continue reading →

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When J.R.R. Tolkien Worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and “Learned More … Than Any Other Equal Period of My Life” (1919–1920)

Posted on January 5, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings appeared in the mid-1950s, its first critical readers held some diverging views on the books’ quality. On the one hand, there was praise for the revival of fantasy for grown-ups, and comparisons to … Continue reading →

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Soul music

Posted on January 4, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Aretha Franklin “Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul … Continue reading →

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Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Most Controversial Movie Ever Made Got Its Director Murdered

Posted on January 3, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom remains one of the most controversial movies ever made. Ever since it was released in 1975, viewers have been equally disgusted and enamoured by the film, which uses grotesque and … Continue reading →

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Peace and Freedom Party

Posted on January 2, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

1968 Vietnam Era Peace and Freedom Party Logo Button ~ Eldridge Cleaver “The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a left-wing political party with affiliates and former members in more than a dozen American states, including California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, … Continue reading →

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Tripping Out At the Movies: A Compendium of the Best Psychedelic Cinema of the 1960s

Posted on January 1, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Easy Rider (1969) “Many of us look back at the 1960s fondly and vicariously, through our modern eyes, but what is it about this period in history that we find so captivating? Despite our visions of ‘The Sixties’ being a … Continue reading →

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