The American experience : a radical reader /
The American experience : a radical reader /
Edited by Harold Jaffe [and] John Tytell.
- New York, NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
- xiii, 460 pages ; 20 cm.
This resource is an anthology of essays, manifestoes, speeches, interviews, poetry, and other writings from cultural figures that speak to the experience of living in America in the 1970s. The resource contains potentially triggering language. Includes index.
Legacy of the beat generation: America / The white negro / Allen Ginsberg -- Norman Mailer -- Black consciousness: James Baldwin: an interview / The white race and its heroes / The white American psyche - exploration of racism / The ballot or the bullet / What we want / The revolutionary theater / Puerto Rican life in New York / How to be a negro without really trying / The white niggers / Kenneth B. Clark -- Eldridge Cleaver -- Lloyd T. Delany -- Malcom X -- Stokely Carmichael -- Le Roi Jones -- Oscar Lewis -- Piri Thomas -- Abbie Hoffman -- New politics and the university: Herbert Marcuse defines his new left line / Skullduggery / The humanities and the inhumanities / The student rebellion / On misunderstanding student rebels / The free universities / American education is an addictive process and its cure / Jean-Louis Ferrier -- Abbie Hoffman -- Louis Kampf -- New university conference -- Martin Duberman -- Ralph Keyes -- Timothy Leary -- New life styles: Apocalypse: the place of mystery in the life of the mind / Joy is the prize: a trip to the Esalen Institute / From the varieties of psychedelic experience / Drugs: a seminar / Zen flesh, zen bones / Why tribe / A social history of the hippies / Philosophy in a pop key: on Marshall McLuhan / Classroom without walls / Norman. O. Brown -- Leo Litwak -- R.E.L. Masters and Jean Houston -- Michael Aldrich -- Paul Reps -- Gary Snyder -- Warren Hinckle -- Harold Rosenberg -- Marshall McLuhan -- New directions in the arts: No more masterpieces / A manifesto on happenings / Soap: a happening / Where are we - the underground? / The new cinema / Experimental music / Like a rolling stone / Interviews with pop artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist / Notes on "camp" / Antonin Artaud -- Allan Kaprow -- Jerome Rothenberg -- Jonas Mekas -- Leon Lewis -- John Cage -- Ralph J. Gleason -- Gene Swanson -- Susan Sontag -- The literature: The dirty-word concept / I am waiting / Patriotic poem / Meditation on a machine / Black bourgeoisie / The Klan / If politicians would learn from poets / Jail break / Poem against the rich / John lied / Talking Vietnam pot luck blues / White rabbit / Get together / Graffiti / Gorgeous George / To the reader / Things to do around San Francisco / Eating poetry / Dump poem / Assassination: a subway ride in one act / Lenny Bruce -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Diane Wakoski -- John Tytell -- Leroi Jones -- Alan Arkin and David Aarkin -- George Economou -- Jackson Maclow -- Robert Bly -- Barry Wallenstein -- Tom Paxton -- Grace Slick -- Chet Powers -- Edward Field -- Toby Olson -- Denise Levertov -- Gary Snyder -- Mark Strand -- Robert Vas Dias -- Harold Jaffee -- Whither: The ability to face whatever comes / 1984 / Buddhism and the coming revolution / I have a dream / Tom Hayden -- Paul Goodman -- Gary Snyder -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The American Experience is a "radical" reader in this sense: it employs a variety of nonconventional forms (manifestoes, speeches, interviews, a symposium, poetry, rock lyrics, and scenarios), in addition to the essay, to speak directly to - not down to - students about life in contemporary America...The American Experience attempts to document the conflicts of the 1960s while anticipating the directions of the 1970s. Because our anthology is exceptionally readable, as well as uncompromisingly relevant, we like to think of it as a paracollege reader intended primarily, though not exclusively, for the college student, since anyone interested in understanding contemporary America would benefit from reading the selections." - From the book preface.
This resource is intended for college students.
74098195
Popular culture--United States--20th century
American literature--20th century
United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Social life and customs--1971-
E 169.12 / .J3 1970
917.3/03/92
This resource is an anthology of essays, manifestoes, speeches, interviews, poetry, and other writings from cultural figures that speak to the experience of living in America in the 1970s. The resource contains potentially triggering language. Includes index.
Legacy of the beat generation: America / The white negro / Allen Ginsberg -- Norman Mailer -- Black consciousness: James Baldwin: an interview / The white race and its heroes / The white American psyche - exploration of racism / The ballot or the bullet / What we want / The revolutionary theater / Puerto Rican life in New York / How to be a negro without really trying / The white niggers / Kenneth B. Clark -- Eldridge Cleaver -- Lloyd T. Delany -- Malcom X -- Stokely Carmichael -- Le Roi Jones -- Oscar Lewis -- Piri Thomas -- Abbie Hoffman -- New politics and the university: Herbert Marcuse defines his new left line / Skullduggery / The humanities and the inhumanities / The student rebellion / On misunderstanding student rebels / The free universities / American education is an addictive process and its cure / Jean-Louis Ferrier -- Abbie Hoffman -- Louis Kampf -- New university conference -- Martin Duberman -- Ralph Keyes -- Timothy Leary -- New life styles: Apocalypse: the place of mystery in the life of the mind / Joy is the prize: a trip to the Esalen Institute / From the varieties of psychedelic experience / Drugs: a seminar / Zen flesh, zen bones / Why tribe / A social history of the hippies / Philosophy in a pop key: on Marshall McLuhan / Classroom without walls / Norman. O. Brown -- Leo Litwak -- R.E.L. Masters and Jean Houston -- Michael Aldrich -- Paul Reps -- Gary Snyder -- Warren Hinckle -- Harold Rosenberg -- Marshall McLuhan -- New directions in the arts: No more masterpieces / A manifesto on happenings / Soap: a happening / Where are we - the underground? / The new cinema / Experimental music / Like a rolling stone / Interviews with pop artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist / Notes on "camp" / Antonin Artaud -- Allan Kaprow -- Jerome Rothenberg -- Jonas Mekas -- Leon Lewis -- John Cage -- Ralph J. Gleason -- Gene Swanson -- Susan Sontag -- The literature: The dirty-word concept / I am waiting / Patriotic poem / Meditation on a machine / Black bourgeoisie / The Klan / If politicians would learn from poets / Jail break / Poem against the rich / John lied / Talking Vietnam pot luck blues / White rabbit / Get together / Graffiti / Gorgeous George / To the reader / Things to do around San Francisco / Eating poetry / Dump poem / Assassination: a subway ride in one act / Lenny Bruce -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Diane Wakoski -- John Tytell -- Leroi Jones -- Alan Arkin and David Aarkin -- George Economou -- Jackson Maclow -- Robert Bly -- Barry Wallenstein -- Tom Paxton -- Grace Slick -- Chet Powers -- Edward Field -- Toby Olson -- Denise Levertov -- Gary Snyder -- Mark Strand -- Robert Vas Dias -- Harold Jaffee -- Whither: The ability to face whatever comes / 1984 / Buddhism and the coming revolution / I have a dream / Tom Hayden -- Paul Goodman -- Gary Snyder -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The American Experience is a "radical" reader in this sense: it employs a variety of nonconventional forms (manifestoes, speeches, interviews, a symposium, poetry, rock lyrics, and scenarios), in addition to the essay, to speak directly to - not down to - students about life in contemporary America...The American Experience attempts to document the conflicts of the 1960s while anticipating the directions of the 1970s. Because our anthology is exceptionally readable, as well as uncompromisingly relevant, we like to think of it as a paracollege reader intended primarily, though not exclusively, for the college student, since anyone interested in understanding contemporary America would benefit from reading the selections." - From the book preface.
This resource is intended for college students.
74098195
Popular culture--United States--20th century
American literature--20th century
United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Social life and customs--1971-
E 169.12 / .J3 1970
917.3/03/92