Light Years: An Anthology on Sociocultural Happenings (Multimedia in the East Village, 1960-1966) [Paperback]

Carol Berge (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1933132469 | ISBN-13: 978-1933132464 | Publication Date: May 1, 2010 | Edition: First Edition

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Performing Arts. LIGHT YEARS tells the story of a unique group of poets, novelists, playwrights and book people who associated with visual and performing artists at the core of New York's emerging East Village Scene in a creative renaissance during the 1960s. The memoirs illustrate how these writers took poetry off the page, how they developed the heady amalgam multimedia. Voices and words were thrust into perspectives where the body and the space around it became extensions of poetry; this is what made the LIGHT YEARS poets different from others of theirera: taking skills into the realms of audio and visual experimentation, and exercising freedom to reconstitute academic learning so as to create new arts. In the intervening decades, the people of LIGHT YEARS, while achieving as professors, translators, editors, novelists, playwrights, actors, and filmmakers, have also received recognition for work in multimedia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 632 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil; First Edition edition (May 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933132469
• ISBN-13: 978-1933132464
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,748,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delves into the media with a focus on poets as the 1960s began, September 9, 2010

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This review is from: Light Years: An Anthology on Sociocultural Happenings (Multimedia in the East Village, 1960-1966) (Paperback)

As the 1950s ended, it became clear to the whole world everything wasn't all right. "Light Years: An Anthology on Sociocultural Happenings" delves into the media with a focus on poets as the 1960s began and how in the East Village of Manhattan, New York, it became known of what was going to spread across the country. Racial issues, urbanization and modernization, woman's liberation, and more, "Light Years" tells a story of the artistic movement that heralded some of the major changes that the decade was known for.