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2025 Fall

Alternative and Underground Press - JRN322 Fall 2025


Course
Pavla Jonssonova
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Counterculture Movements 1956-1974 I

Introductions. Syllabus. Agenda and Personalities Part I

2. Writing about what mattters. Personalities and publications

between 1965-1969 500 cities published underground papers

3. Music Magazines: Rolling Stone, Spin, Maximum Rock'n'roll

4. Samizdat Czech Underground

Samizdat. Libri Prohibiti

5. New Journalism and Gonzo Journalism*

Tom Wolf and Hunter S. Thomson

6. Lifestyles and mainstream crosover

7. Transatlantic Counterculture in the 1960s

8. Henry Cow members Chris Cutler and Tim Hodkinson (UK) and their suport of Czech dissidents

We will visit the concert of two British stars of independent progressive rock Chris Cutler and Tim Hodkinson

9. Midterm essay

Topic: Midterm 20% Bring in your computer.

10. Indigenous media

Black Panthers, Native Americans, Malcolm X

11. Satirical alternative media

12. Local autonomous scenes

temporary autonomous zones

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