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Search Results for: boston counterculture

Arts Commentary: “Counterculture in Boston 1968 – 1980s” — High and Heady Days

About the post-Reagan era, Boston Phoenix and Boston After Dark editor, Arnie Reisman, observes: “Everything went to sleep, and while we were sleeping, the Republican Party grew six more heads.”

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Counterculture in Boston 1968 – 1980s

Book Review: “The Artist in the Counterculture” — California Dreamin’

If historian Thomas Crow’s goal is to explain how these rebels of the counterculture reshaped American art, he is at least partly successful.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Bruce Conner, Corita Kent, Mike Kelley, Princeton University Press, The Artist in the Counterculture, Thomas Crow

Film Commentary: “Between the Lines” Eulogizes the Beginning of the End of Boston’s Alt-Weekly Era

Even 42 years ago, disillusionment was setting in among the workers at alt-weekly papers like The Real Paper and The Boston Phoenix.

By: Brett Michel Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Between the Lines, Brett Michel, Joan Micklin Silver

Book Review: “The Customer Is Always Wrong” – Counterculture Behind the Counter

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drawn & Quarterly, graphic novel, Milo Miles, Mimi Pond, Over Easy, The Customer is Always Wrong

Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness

How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America's Radical Underground, Black Panthers, Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage, Symbionese Liberation Army, Terrorism, Weatherman

Coming Attractions: March 26 Through April 8 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Blake Maddux, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

Book Review: Singing the Boomer Blues — Buddhist Version

As cultural critique, Curtis White’s Transcendent comes across as a modest if chilly yip of Zen resignation.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: '60s culture, Buddhism, Curtis White, Melville House, Poetry, zen

Arts Remembrance: David Crosby — One More Link to Rock ’n’ Roll’s Golden Era Lost

When I glorify or romanticize an artist like David Crosby it is because the performer has a gift for alchemizing songs into something huge, powerful, spiritual, and communal.

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Rock Tagged: David Crosby, Scott McLennan

Doc Talk: Making Reparations, Restoring a Reputation, Redrawing Identities

Reviews of the cogent and well-crafted The Big Payback, the comprehensive if conventional Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, and No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which expertly balances whimsy and gravity, though the version of the film shown by PBS has been heavily censored.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alison Bechdel, Come Out Comix, Erika Alexander, Howard Cruse, Mary Wings, No Straight Lines, Peter Keough, Rupert Kinnard, The Big Payback, Whitney Dow, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Book Review: “Folk Music — A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs”

At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Folk, Review, Rock Tagged: Bob-Dylan, Daniel Gewertz, Folk Music -- A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs, Greil Marcus, Yale-University-Press

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