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  title info:
    title: Smoking typewriters
    sub title: the Sixties underground press and the rise of alternative media in America
  name:
    name part: McMillian, John Campbell.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people--many of them affluent and college educated--to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? Historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of papers like the Los Angeles Free Press, the East Village Other, and the Berkeley Barb, young people across the country launched hundreds of mimeographed pamphlets and flyers, small press magazines, and underground newspapers. New and cheap printing technologies had democratized the publishing process, and by the decade's end the combined circulation of underground papers stretched into the millions. Though not technically illegal, these papers were often genuinely subversive, and many who produced and sold them--on street-corners, at poetry readings, gallery openings, and coffeehouses--became targets of harassment from local and federal authorities. With writers who actively participated in the events they described, underground newspapers captured the zeitgeist of the '60s, speaking directly to their readers, and reflecting and magnifying the spirit of cultural and political protest. McMillian gives special attention to the ways underground newspapers fostered a sense of community and played a vital role in shaping the New Left's "movement culture."--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction -- "Our Funder, the Mimeograph Machine": Print Culture in Students for a Democratic Society -- A Hundred Blooming Papers: Culture and Community in the 1960s Underground Press -- "Electrical Bananas": The Great Banana Hoax of 1967 and the Underground Press -- "All the Protest Fit for Print": The Rise of Liberation News Service -- "Either We Have Freedom of the Press--Or We Don't Have Freedom of the Press": Thomas King Forcade and the War Against Underground Newspapers -- Questioning Who Decides Participatory Democracy in the Underground Press -- From Underground to Everywhere: Alternative Media Trends Since the Sixties.
  note: John McMillian.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-260) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Underground press publications
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Radicalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Press and politics
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Nineteen sixties
  classification: PN4888.U5 M35 2011
  classification: 071/.309046
  identifier: 9780195319927 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0195319923 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 2010026243
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100619
    record change date: 20151202120244.0
    record identifier: in00002636767