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Avatar (underground Newspaper)
''Avatar'' was an American underground newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1967–1968. The newspaper's first issues were published from the headquarters of ''Broadside'' magazine in Cambridge. Publication history ''Avatar'' was started by a varied group of people from different parts of the Boston countercultural scene, but quickly came to be dominated by the Fort Hill Community, led by Mel Lyman, a charismatic banjo and harmonica-playing folk musician who had, over some years in Boston and Cambridge, become the center of a group called the Lyman Family. Over time, disputes between the Fort Hill Community and other factions involved in putting out the paper led to an irreconcilable split, which ended that cycle of the paper.David Felton, "The Lyman Family's Holy Siege of America". Originally appeared in ''Rolling Stone'' 98, Dec. 23, 1971, pp. 40-60, and ''Rolling Stone'' 99, Jan. 6, 1972, pp. 40-60. Reprinted in ''Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Press
The terms underground press or clandestine press refer to periodicals and publications that are produced without official approval, illegally or against the wishes of a dominant (governmental, religious, or institutional) group. In specific recent (post-World War II) Asian, American and Western European context, the term "underground press" has most frequently been employed to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in India and Bangladesh in Asia, in the United States and Canada in North America, and the United Kingdom and other western nations. It can also refer to the newspapers produced independently in repressive regimes. In German occupied Europe, for example, a thriving underground press operated, usually in association with the Resistance. Other notable examples include the ''samizdat'' and ''bibuła'', which operated in the Soviet Union and Poland respectively, during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Paper (American Newspaper)
''The Paper'' was a weekly underground newspaper published in East Lansing, Michigan, beginning in December 1965. It was one of the five original founding members of the Underground Press Syndicate. Peck, Abe. ''Uncovering the Sixties'' (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985).'' Publication history Started by Michigan State University student Michael Kindman as a radical, counterculture alternative to the official MSU campus newspaper, ''The Paper'' was sympathetic to the politics of SDS. Initially tolerated by the Michigan State University school administration, ''The Paper'' briefly received funding from a campus publications board before controversial content caused it to be banned from the MSU campus, but it continued to grow in popularity after the ban. In the summer of 1966, shortly after the founding of UPS, Kindman met Thorne Dreyer and Carol Neiman from the University of Texas at an SDS summer project in San Francisco and told them about ''The Paper''. Afterward, on their re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Underground Newspapers Of The 1960s Counterculture
This is a partial list of the local underground newspapers launched during the Sixties era of the hippie/psychedelic/youth/counterculture/New Left/antiwar movements, approximately 1965–1972. This list includes periodically appearing papers of general countercultural interest printed in a newspaper format, and specific to a particular locale. Australia * ''Sydney FTA'', Sydney, 1970 Belgium *''Amenophis'', Brussels, 1965–1975 *'' Real Free Press'', Antwerp Canada Alberta *''Canada Goose'', Edmonton British Columbia *''The Georgia Straight'', Vancouver Manitoba *''The Lovin' Couch Press'', Winnipeg * ''Ǒmṕhalǒs'', Winnipeg Ontario *''Harbinger'', Toronto *''Octopus'', Ottawa (later ''Ottawa's Free Press'') Quebec *'' Pop-See-Cul'', Montreal, 1967–1968 France *'' Actuel'', Paris *'' Interluttes'', Paris India *'' Hungry Generation'' weekly bulletins, Calcutta (1961–1965) *'' Krittibas'' Italy * ''Fuori!'' * ''Re Nudo'' * ''Tampax'' United Kingdom *''Black Dwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Peck
John PeckBerke, Ben"Providence's Mad Peck receives little recognition, and wants even less: Counterculture artist, archivist's job description falls somewhere between 'renaissance man' and 'hustler,'"''Providence Journal'' (Oct 20, 2016).l a.k.a. The Mad Peck (born c. 1942 in New York City) is an American underground cartoonist, rock poster artist, and disc jockey. His most famous poster is a 1978 comic book-style poster that starts with the line, "Providence, Rhode Island, where it rains two days out of three except during the rainy season when it snows like a bitch." The poster has been reprinted many times and is widely available for purchase throughout Rhode Island. Biography Raised in New York City, Peck attended Brown University beginning in 1960. Graduating from Brown in 1967, in the intervening years he also attended New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Mad Peck created silkscreen concert posters for Rhode Island concerts from 1966 to 1971, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawdaddy!
''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 the Crawdaddy Club in London and published during its early years as ''Crawdaddy!'' (with an exclamation point). According to ''The New York Times'', ''Crawdaddy'' was "the first magazine to take rock and roll seriously", while the magazine's rival ''Rolling Stone'' acknowledged it as "the first serious publication devoted to rock & roll news and criticism". Cited in Preceding both ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Creem'', ''Crawdaddy'' was the training ground for many rock writers just finding the language to describe rock and roll, which was only then beginning to be written about as studiously as folk music and jazz. The magazine spawned the career of numerous rock and other writers. Early contributors included Jon Landau, Sandy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stafford
Peter Stafford (1941 – July 20, 2007) was an American writer and author of the ''Psychedelics Encyclopedia''. Stafford is also co-author with Bonnie Golightly of ''LSD: The Problem-solving Psychedelic,'' as well as other books on psychedelics. Biography Stafford was born in Oakland, California. He attended Reed College and graduated from the University of Washington. In 1961, while at Reed College, Stafford experimented with the Native American sacred cactus Peyote. He moved to the East Village in New York City in 1964, where he spent the next ten years. He was the editor of ''Crawdaddy!'' magazine from 1969 to 1970. He was a contributor to ''High Times''. In 1974, Stafford moved to Santa Cruz, California, with the intention of reconnecting with his father, whom he had not seen since early childhood. Stafford died on July 20, 2007, in Santa Cruz, apparently from a complete heart block and injuries sustained falling from a ladder in his home. Selected works * (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Williams (music Journalist)
Paul S. Williams (May 19, 1948 – March 27, 2013) was an American music journalist and writer who created ''Crawdaddy!'', the first national US magazine of rock music criticism, in January 1966. He was a leading authority on the works of musicians Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, and Neil Young, and science fiction writers Philip K. Dick (serving as the executor of his literary estate) and Theodore Sturgeon. Career While briefly enrolled at Swarthmore College, Williams created '' :Crawdaddy!'', the first national US magazine of rock music criticism, in January 1966 with the help of some of his fellow science fiction fans (he had previously produced science fiction fanzines). His aim was to reflect the sophistication brought to pop music by two albums released in 1965: Bob Dylan's ''Bringing It All Back Home'' and the Beatles' ''Rubber Soul''. The first issue was ten mimeographed pages written entirely by Williams. In that issue, he declared that ''Crawdaddy!'' would include "neither ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoHo, Manhattan
SoHo, sometimes written Soho (South of Houston Street), is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and has also been known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store outlets. The area's history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing Socioeconomics, socioeconomic, cultural, political, and architectural developments. The name "SoHo" derives from the area being "South of Houston Street", and was coined in 1962 by Chester Rapkin, an urban planner and author of ''The South Houston Industrial Area'' study, also known as the "Rapkin Report". The name also recalls Soho, an area in London's West End of London, West End. Almost all of SoHo is included in the SoHo–Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid–Compact (newspaper), compact formats. Description Many broadsheets measure roughly per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australians, Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of ISO 216, A1 per spread (). South Africa, South African broadsheet newspapers have a double-page spread sheet size of (single-page live print area of 380 x 545 mm). Others measure 22 in (560 mm) vertically. In the United States, the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are wide by long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs, many U.S. newspapers have downsized to wide by long for a folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the "broadsheet size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Lyman
Melvin James Lyman (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) was an American musician and writer, and the founder of the Fort Hill Community, which has been variously described as a family, commune, or cult. Early life Lyman grew up in California and Oregon. As a young man, according to the music newsletter ''The Broadside of Boston'', he spent a number of years traveling the country and learning harmonica and banjo from such musicians as Brother Percy Randolph and Obray Ramsey.MEL LYMAN (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) In ''FolkWorks'', online version of the 2001-2007 magazine of folk & traditional music for Southern California. During a period in the early 1960s, Lyman lived in |
Countercultural
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Houghton Mifflin. . (1993) p. 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. In the 1960s and Europe before fading in the 1970s... fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest." A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes. Prominent examples of countercultures in the Western world include the Levellers (1645–1650), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), followed by the globalized counterculture of the 1960s (1964–1974). Definition and characteristics John Milton Yinger originated the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
