Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell


Pop Culture and Counter Culture 
of the 
Atomic Age

I was goin' pretty fast, I looked behind, 
a'here come the devil doin' ninety-nine. 
From "Race With the Devil" by Gene Vincent

"If a life can have a ‘theme song’ — and I believe that every worthwhile one has — mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism."
Ayn Rand

"If the resistance of the counter culture fails, I think there will be nothing in store for us but what anti-Utopians Huxley and Orwell have forecast--though I have no doubt that these dismal despotisms will be far more stable and effective than their prophets have forseen. For they will be equipped with techniques of inner-manipulation as unobtrusively fine as gossamer. Above all, the capacity of our emerging technocratic paradise to denature the imagination by appropriating to itself the whole meaning of Reason, Reality, Progress, and Knowledge will render it impossible for men to give any name to their bothersomely unfulfilled potentialities but that of madness. And for such madness, humanitarian therapies will be generously provided."

The Making of a Counter Culture
Theodore Roszak
1969

Compelled by a burning desire to explore the fire of change in CounterCulture? Feel like an intellectual pyromaniac? Leave your extinguisher behind and warm yourself at these sites:

 

Timelines

LSD

Fifties
Sixties

MLA

Civil Rights
Vietnam

Port Huron

Music
Literature

N Y Times

Film & TV
Radio 

Blacklisting

Mythology 
Scholarship

The Project 

The Left
Atomic

Art

Comics
PMS

Links to Lyrics

Science&Tech
Students

Cold War Links 

Car Culture

Because something is happening here

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

From "Ballad of the Thin Man"

Bob Dylan

For all my student-scholars:

To search Popculture and Counterculture pages:
(Please let me know if this doesn't work.)

To search Popculture and Counterculture:


To search the Internet:
Search the Web

A direct link to Alta Vista:

Search  and Display the Results 

Timeline of the Counter Culture Documentation Page

Work in Progress.

 MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources

Still can't find it ? Search 
ALL-IN-ONE Search Page
MEGASOURCES
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Politics and Society 

This site serves three purposes: to provide links to a wide variety of sites that deal with Pop/Alternative/Counter Culture, to provide a list of resources for my research paper English class (English 201), and to provide a showplace for some of my students' research Timeline Documentation and Corrections) . The starting point for research in this class is the Timeline. All additions, corrections and verifications will be forwarded to the creator of the gigantic piece of work, along with our gratitude for her generosity. If you haven't seen it, check it out.

Learning can be fun. Don't you wish you were taking my class?

Links to Check Out*

Our Daily Bleed... recall on this date..... A wake-up call better than boiled coffee! A calendar of events your mom & pop forgot to tell you about...
THE COLIN WILSON PAGE.
Colin Wilson is an English author who has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles on a variety of subjects, particularly (although not limited to) philosophy, literary criticism, fiction, and the occult. What makes his work unique is that there is a single, driving idea behind all of his work in every field: namely, the concept of the "Outsider" and the place of such individuals within the context of these various fields.

Selected Speeches:  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy.

JFK Executive Orders by date.

The Smoking Gun  The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents --cool, confidential, quirky -- that can't be found elsewhere on the Web,  using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide.

The Legend of Pieman/ Let 1,000 Pies Fly!!! plus links, links and more links(437 plus and growing). Great sound and video if you can dig it.

The Hollow Planet A Guide to the Counter-Culture, many links.

* You will find in the above location new links to "Pop Culture and/or Counter Culture." The links will be here for no set time. Some of them will be added to this page; some will disappear forever. They all contain something I found interesting and wish to share with anyone who visits here.

Any suggestions, E-mail to: dpearson@ctc.ctc.edu

The Student Movement

Port Huron Statement

MAYDAY: Kent State

KSU Special Collections & Archives

Kent State material, includes SDS documentation
. 25 Year Retrospective Conference on Kent State and Jackson State

The Left

Bad Subjects

    "Bad Subjects seeks to revitalize a progressive politics in retreat." Some Timeline sources here.

The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the U.S.

    By a veteran of the Anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s, of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the main campus-based anti-war organization, of the Worker-Student Alliance Caucus of SDS, which stood for urging students to ally with the American working class to oppose capitalist and imperialist exploitation both at home and abroad -- exploitation which they saw as the root cause of the war in Vietnam.

Jay's Leftist & "Progressive" Internet Resources Directory

Left-Wing Lingo, Ideologies and History

Postmodern Scene

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.

Panic Encyclopedia  The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene

 

Post Modem Intelligent and Atomic

 

alt.culture an a-z of the '90s

Scholarly Stuff

One in Ten: Adrian Scott and the Hollywood Ten

Two days before Halloween in 1947, Adrian Scott was summoned to appear in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to answer questions about Communist influence on the motion picture industry. His testimony -- or rather, lack thereof -- resulted in contempt of court, a year-long prison term, and over sixteen years of blacklisting.

Bibliography: Consumer culture and leisure

20th Century USA

TEACHING DYLAN AT TENNYSON'S EXPENSE?

H-PCAACA

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Bowling Green State University's Research Resources in Popular Culture Studies
This is a very thorough site with a variety of information on all aspects of popular culture
AVANT-POP MANIFESTO
 THREAD BARING ITSELF IN TEN QUICK POSTS By Mark Amerika

Radio

Old Time Radio 
Broadcast Pioneers: Library of American Broadcasting
Pioneer Radio Stations
The Golden Age of Radio

    These sites will take you back to the early electronic pop culture phenomenon of oldtime radio. Want to find out about Captain Midnight? Burns and Allen? Fibber Mcgee and Molly? B Bar B Ranch? Henry Morgan? Harry Morgan? Check this one if you are feeling nostalgic.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The fires keep burning.

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