Free press : underground & alternative publications 1965-1975 / Jean-François Bizot ; foreword by Barry Miles.

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Bizot, Jean-François [Browse]
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Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Universe, 2006.
Description
255 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

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    "This nostalgic tour-de-force celebrates the alternative newspapers that forever influenced culture, politics, and society. Taking the collective name from the wartime "underground press" of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance, the rebellious countercultural publications examined here were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate (later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate), which was founded in 1967 so that member papers could freely share material. This utopian model perfectly suited the times. The work of soon to be famous writers and artists such as Hunter S. Thompson, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ken Kesey, R. Crumb, and Art Spiegelman was soon widely available from coast to coast." "An outgrowth of the global youth movement, the underground press documented everything from politics and art to film and fashion -with a sizeable leavening of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Among the featured publications 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 Berkeley Barb (famous for one cover showing a young man with a chain around his mind), The San Francisco Oracle (which featured the writing of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti), and Fifth Estate (which coined the phrase "all isms are was-isms")."--Jacket.
    Notes
    • Includes index.
    • Originally published in French in 2006 as Free press, la contre-culture vue par la presse underground, by Actuel.
    Contents
    • Foreword. Notes from the underground / Barry Miles
    • We are the future! The free press is everywhere
    • Freak out! First slogan of the free press
    • Power to the people! The free press gets militant
    • Down with male domination! The free press, the women's movement and gay liberation
    • Black power! The free press fights for equal rights
    • Protect the planet! The free press supports green politics
    • Blank generation: the free press is hit by the glam explosion and winds up punk
    • An enlightening history of the Underground Press Syndicate / Jean-François Bizot
    • Further enlightenment: the stories behind the images
    • Chronology of the underground years, 1965-75.
    ISBN
    • 0789314967
    • 9780789314963
    LCCN
    2006299695
    OCLC
    71753548
    International Article Number
    • 9780789314963
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