Retreat: How the Counterculture invented Wellness
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vershy versh
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People care, but in that particular interview it just feels like going through the motions.
john eden
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I assume Matt said the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, but this wasn't picked up by the interviewer.
Which was mainly dudes. Emmet Grogan of the Diggers memorably read a Hitler speech and then revealed this to the audience after they had applauded.
A quick google suggests that Susan Sherman and Carolee Schneemann were on the bill.
luka
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care about what? that every single book that gets published shoehorns a bit about some worthy woman or other into it?
vershy versh
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About things being male-centric.
john eden
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I don't think there's really any argument to be had about the fact that culture, as well as counter culture was incredibly sexist and patriarchal in the 60s and 70s though?
There would be an interesting book about the role that women played - and perhaps the uneven development of women's presence and feminist thought in the different strands of the movements. So there were a bunch of women prominent in anti-nukes stuff and the black panthers for example.
There would be an interesting book about the role that women played - and perhaps the uneven development of women's presence and feminist thought in the different strands of the movements. So there were a bunch of women prominent in anti-nukes stuff and the black panthers for example.
john eden
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Val Wilmer's "As Serious As Your Life" makes the point that the free jazz dudes were only able to continue with all that malarkey because they had women doing the domestic and support work. Mingus' autobiography is revoltingly candid about his parasitical relationship with women too.
john eden
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I think with social movements it is easy to fall into the "great man" theory where a few key figures (who are almost always middle class, white and hetero) did all the stuff. This is a problem with history generally.
I'm not saying Matt has done this (I've not read his book) but it's OK for Version and the Quietus to bring it up.
I'm not saying Matt has done this (I've not read his book) but it's OK for Version and the Quietus to bring it up.
luka
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you literally just mentioned free jazz and charles mingus who are not conspicuously white lmao
john eden
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I have. And I did say mainly. Most of those talking heads docs on BBC4 are white dudes.
And what about free jazz now> You'd need to include Derek Bailey and a load of OTO dudes.
john eden
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john eden
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