YIPPIE!
In collaboration with Zsolt Prieger (journalist, leader of the band Anima Sound System), and with Gabriella Schuller (art-historian), I am writing a book on the history and ideas of the Yippie movement. The book is being written in Hungarian. There is very little known about the Yippies in this country, although the ideas of Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and other American civil rights radicals had a strong influence over the most important Hungarian neo-avantgarde artists, thinkers, in the 1970s. We are hoping to fill a long hiatus with this book. We are not in the business of putting together a collection of scholarly essays, we rather decided on writing a Yippie book, a true tribute to the heroes of counter culture, a vivid response to the challenges of our own chaotic time and age. The 'Yippie!' book is due to come out in the Spring of 2008, published by the Golyós Toll Kft. Parallel with writing the book I started up NewsRoom, an independent Hungarian language news portal, with the motto: "Steal This News!".
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IPUT is countering since ever the usage of the expression "counter culture" as a general name of the culture which exists parallel to the counter culture of the state and other repressive tolerant/intolerant institutions - even if it is used by the culture itself.
The blogger agrees with IPUT once again and in the forthcoming book will use the term "counter culture" only as the definition of the culture which is promoted by the state and other repressive tolerant/intolerant institutions.
Thanx for IPUT for the valuable contribution.
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