Download or read book Smoking Typewriters written by John McMillian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian argues that the "underground press" contributed to the New Left's growth and cultural organization in crucial, overlooked ways.
Download or read book Protest and Survive written by James Lewes and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist subculture within the U.S. armed services. These activists took the position that individual GIs could best challenge their subordination by working in concert with like-minded servicemen through GI movement organizations whose behaviors and activities were then publicized in these underground newspapers. In examining this movement, Lewes focuses on their treatment of power and authority within the armed forces and how this mirrored the wider and more inclusive relations of power and authority in the United States. He argues that this opposition among servicemen was the primary motivation for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam. This first book length study of GI-published underground newspapers sheds light on the utility of alternative media for movements of social change, and provides information on how these movements are shaped by the environments in which they emerge. Lewes asserts that one cannot understand GI opposition as an extension of the civilian antiwar movement. Instead, it was the product of an embedded environment, whose inhabitants had been drafted or had enlisted to avoid the draft. They came from cities and small towns whose populations were often polarized between those who wholeheartedly supported the war and those who became progressively more critical of the need for Americans to be involved in Vietnam.
Download or read book The Campaign Against the Underground Press written by Geoffrey Rips and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on illegal surveillance and harassment of the independent press movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and details the efforts of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other agencies to silence dissident voices of the antiwar, youth, women's, and minority rights movements. Contains reproductions of pages from underground press publications and previously classified government documents.
Download or read book The Underground Press in America written by Robert J. Glessing and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Underground Reporters written by Kathy Kacer and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Budejovice, a quiet village in the Czech Republic, during the Second World War, a plot of land by the river was allocated to the Jewish youth of the village. There, some brave young people decided to create a newspaper. This book chronicles the lives of the young people who were the newspaper's creators and contributors.
Download or read book Celebrating The Rag Austin s Iconic Underground Newspaper written by Alice Embree and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating The Rag tells the remarkable story of the legendary underground newspaper that sparked a political and cultural revolution and helped make Austin weird. The book features more than 100 articles from The Rag's 11-year history plus contemporary essays and eye-popping vintage art and photography. This collection captures the radical politics and subversive humor that marked the pages of this upstart newspaper between 1966 and 1977.
Download or read book My Odyssey Through the Underground Press written by Michael Kindman and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Michigan State University, the nation’s first land grant college, attracted a record number of National Merit Scholars by offering competitive scholarships. One of these exceptional students was Michael Kindman. After the beginning of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Kindman, in line to be editor-in-chief of the official MSU student newspaper, felt compelled to seek a more radical forum of intellectual debate. In 1965, he dropped out of school and founded The Paper, one of the first five members of Underground Press Syndicate. This gripping autobiography follows Kindman’s inspiring journey of self-discovery, from MSU to Boston, where he joined the staff of Avatar, unaware that the large commune that controlled the paper was a charismatic cult. Five years later, he fled the commune’s outpost in Kansas and headed to San Francisco, where he came out as a gay man, changed his name to Mica, and continued his work as an activist and visionary.
Download or read book Free Press written by Jean-François Bizot and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its collective name from the wartime "underground press" of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance, the publications examined here were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate (later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate), founded in 1967 so that member papers could freely share and reprint material. This utopian model resulted in an explosion of alternative publications worldwide as every small start-up had access to the work of soon-to-be famous writers, journalists, artists, and graphic designers. Among the notable figures whose work has appeared in these pages are Hunter S. Thompson, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ken Kesey, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman—to name only a few. The underground press documented everything from politics and art to film and fashion. Among the publications featured here are The Los Angeles Free Press (persecuted by the Nixon-era FBI for its antiwar views), The East Village Other (the first to adopt a psychedelic layout), Interview (founded by Andy Warhol and the first to feature homoerotic imagery), The Chicago Seed, Oracle, and The Berkeley Barb (famous for one cover showing a young man with a chain around his mind). The ideas unleashed in these now vintage publications continue to reverberate through society and influence public discourse and graphic design in the form of today's 'zines and online blogs.
Download or read book Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press Part 1 written by Ken Wachsberger and published by Voices from the Underground. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important collection. I do not say that lightly.---Chris Atton, Professor of Media and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland --
Download or read book The Literary Underground of the Old Regime written by Robert Darnton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history.
Download or read book Underground written by Nigel Fountain and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crosswords from the Underground written by Ben Tausig and published by Puzzlewright. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solvers who want something fresh, fun, and filled with contemporary themes need look no further! Constructed by puzzle wizard Ben Tausig for his crossword feature published in alternative weeklies such as the Village Voice and the Chicago Reader, these puzzles are perfect for those who know their Ashlee Simpson from their Marge Simpson and want to test their up-to-the-minute knowledge of pop culture. As a special extra, the answers to every puzzle include amusing sidelights and explanations of some of the more difficult answers.
Download or read book Shots Photographs from the Underground Press written by David Fenton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press Part 2 written by Ken Wachsberger and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories, building on those presented in Part 1, represent a wide range of publications: countercultural, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoners’ rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. Wachsberger notes that the underground press not only produced a few well-known papers but also was truly national and diverse in scope. His goal is to capture the essence of “the countercultural community.” This book will be a fundamental resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of a dramatic era in U.S. history, as well as offering a younger readership a glimpse into a generation of idealists who rose up to challenge and improve government and society.
Download or read book Voices from the Underground A directory of sources and resources on the Vietnam era underground press written by Ken Wachsberger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power to the People written by Geoff Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we think of the 1960s and the early ‘70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. Thanks to advances in cheap offset printing, groups involved in antiwar, civil rights, and other social liberation issues began to spread their messages through provocatively designed newspapers and broadsheets. This vibrant new media was essential to the counterculture revolution as a whole—helping to motivate the masses and proliferate ideas. Power to the People presents more than 700 full-color images and excerpts from these astonishing publications, many of which have not been seen since they were first published almost fifty years ago. From the psychedelic pages of the Oracle, Haight-Ashbury’s paper of choice, to the fiery editorials of the Black Panther Party Paper, these papers were remarkable for their editors’ fervent belief in freedom of expression and their DIY philosophy. They were also extraordinary for their graphic innovations. Experimental typography and wildly inventive layouts reflect an alternative media culture as much informed by the space age, television, and socialism as it was by the great trinity of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Assembled by renowned graphic designer Geoff Kaplan, Power to the People pays homage in its layout to the radical press. Beyond its unparalleled images, Power to the People includes essays by Gwen Allen, Bob Ostertag, and Fred Turner, as well as a series of recollections edited by Pamela M. Lee, all of which comment on the critical impact of the alternative press in the social and popular movements of those turbulent years. Power to the People treats the design practices of that moment as activism in its own right that offers a vehement challenge to the dominance of official media and a critical form of self-representation. No other book surveys in such variety the highly innovative graphic design of the underground press, and certainly no other book captures the era with such an unmatched eye toward its aesthetic and look. Power to the People is not just a major compendium of art from the ’60s and ’70s—it showcases how the radical media graphically fashioned the image of a countercultural revolution that still resounds to this day.
Download or read book Uncovering the Sixties written by Abe Peck and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the underground press during the sixties, explains why the movement started, and shares the experiences of some of its participants
