Firesign

Author: Jeremy Braddock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520398513
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
"A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s as told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group. This expansive book reclaims the Firesign Theatre (hazily remembered as a comedy act for stoners) as critically engaged artists working in the heart of the culture industry at a time of massive social and technological change. Working at the intersection of popular music, sound and media studies, cultural history, and avant-garde literature, Jeremy Braddock reveals how this inventive group made the lowbrow comedy album a medium for registering the contradictions and collapse of the counterculture, and traces their legacies in hip-hop turntablism, computer hacking, and participatory fan culture. Focusing on Firesign's work in Los Angeles from 1967 to 1975, Braddock deploys a vast range of material sources, informed by numerous interviews and writing in tune with the group's obsessive and ludic reflections--on multitrack recording, radio, television, cinema, early artificial intelligence, and more. This ebullient act of media archaeology reveals Firesign Theatre as authors of a comic utopian pessimism that will inspire twenty-first-century recording arts and urge us to engage the massive technological changes of our own era"--

Hopis and the Counterculture

Author: Brian Haley
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816553653
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the 1960s. It reveals a largely unknown network of Native, non-Indian, and neo-Indian actors who spread misrepresentations of the Hopi that they created through interactions with the Hopi Traditionalist faction of the 1940s through 1980s. Significantly, many non-Hopis involved adopted Indian identities during this time, becoming "neo-Indians." Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, Hopis and the Counterculture meticulously traces the trajectories of figures such as Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others. Drawing on insights into the interplay between primitivism, radicalism, stereotyping, and identity, Haley expands on concepts from scholars such as Roy Harvey Pearce's notion of "isolated radicals" and Jonathan Friedman's observations regarding the ascendancy of primitivism amid global crises. Haley scrutinizes the roles played by non-Hopi actors and the timing behind the widespread popularization of Hopi religious practices.

Bozobook, Or, the Firesign Theatre's Clam Calendar & Book of Ours

Author: Firesign Theatre (Performing group)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description

Contemporary American Poetry

Author: Lloyd M. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Discovering Musicals

Author: Marc Raymond Strauss
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476674507
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
One of the few studies that cover both Broadway and Hollywood musicals, this book explores a majority of the most famous musicals over the past two centuries plus a select number of overlooked gems. Doubling as an introductory college and university text for musical, dance and theater majors and a guide for both musical connoisseurs and novices, the book includes YouTube references of nearly 1000 examples of dances and songs from musicals.

The Great Deformation

Author: David Stockman
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586489127
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 770

Book Description
A former Michigan congressman and member of the Reagan administration describes how interference in the financial markets has contributed to the national debt and has damaging and lasting repercussions.

The Sullen Art

Author: David Ossman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692677124
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Transcripts of interviews conducted by David Ossman in the early 1960s with modern poets

Bowker's Complete Video Directory

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home video systems industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1208

Book Description

New York Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Keeper of the Celtic Secrets

Author: Betty Rhodes
Publisher: Betty Rhodes
ISBN: 159800283X
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
WRITTEN AS A BOOK OF FICTION - BUT IS IT Revealed in this book, is the mystery behind the Missing Link, the answer to the 'creation or evolution' question, the origins of the races, the origins of Rh-Negative blood; the Red Thread, the Origin of the Hebrew people, the wandering planet of Hibiru - yes, Hibiru, and much more. See, how patterns can reveal the future, what the Garden of Eden really was, and learn about the ancient Gods of Sumer, the Mazzaroth trail, and much more. This book has a heart wrenching love story, and is full of mystery, danger, and excitement, but more importantly, it contains the unveiling of secret knowledge from some old secret journals. Journals, scribed in 1650, have passed down to 'the keeper of the secrets', Samantha O'Brian, who decides to share these amazing secrets with the world. These secrets will open your eyes to wisdom so astounding, that you won't believe your eyes.