Word: psychedelia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those whose synthesis of sound and image arouses the most violent and endurable fantasies, dreams and roles you can wear in everyday life. Sometimes the music gets in the way of fantasy, as in jazz, and the rock becomes reviewable, esoteric. Sometimes the fantasy becomes too formless (space music, psychedelia) or too simplistic (rock and roll revival) and the whole experience collapses. Great rock happenings are thus a dialogue between audience wishes, conceived in non-musical, irrational terms, and a group's media image. Projection is all. In fantasy, as in rock, the best group is the Rolling Stones...
...Beat scene. Since then, often unwashed yet somehow steeped in cleansing waves of culture, sometimes naked but never far removed from the whole cloth of bohemian and Brahman tradition, Allen Ginsberg has gained celebrity not only as a poet but as a practicing pansexualist and pioneer in psychedelia. He has also preached all manner of revolutionary activities that could lead to the overthrow of what he considers society's "hallucination" regarding money and power...
...roots. This period of retrenchment is necessary before a new form can take over. It happened about seven years ago, when the initial momentum of R&R died and was temporarily replaced by "folk music," à la early Dylan. Now that the excesses of the Gilded Age of psychedelia have become boring, the same thing is going on, with a revival of Country music. But just as the purist's folk music (Lonnie Johnson; Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes) never quite made it in '62, it is unlikely that anything you might hear on somebody's front steps...
...articles pro and con has a slim amount of factual information, and some interesting speculations about LSD. Included are reports of LSD experiments with terminal cancer patients, alcoholics, and the "mentally ill," as well as articles by Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, Leary, and other journalists of psychedelia...
...This Land Is My Land. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (CBS) is a revival of the summer-substitute show starring Citybilly Singei Campbell (TIME, Jan. 31). Comic Pal Paulsen usually pops in, and the result is pleasantly unobjectionable. Particularly refreshing is the lack of overproduction numbers and the lighting psychedelia now in vogue. The same could not be said of This Is Tom Jones (ABC), a variety bill headlined by a Welsh baritone in the soul bag. Jones version of soul is three parts sweat and a half-part swivet. On the premiere, he was finished off by his continuity...