The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World

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Transcript (for American Experience documentary on the Summer of Love)". PBS and WGBH. March 14, 2007. The Line Up for 2007". Summer of Love 50th Anniversary – 2017. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017 . Retrieved July 23, 2017. a b Bainbridge, Luke (23 February 2014). "Acid house and the dawn of a rave new world". The Guardian. a b c d e f g h i j Will Harris (31 August 2009). "Hooks 'N' You: A Portrait of Gary Clark as a Young Recording Artist". Popdose.com . Retrieved 20 August 2016. Please join us on Friday 4 May in the Talks Space at Frieze New York. The film screening will begin at 17:00, followed by an artist talk with Wu and members of the cast.

What was the summer of love?". The Guardian. May 26, 2007. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved August 16, 2017. The lead single, " Mary's Prayer", issued in the spring, was initially unsuccessful in the United Kingdom, missing the official UK Top 75 and peaking at number 86. However the US release of "Mary's Prayer" that summer afforded Danny Wilson a surprise US Top 40 hit, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band toured the United States in the autumn of 1987, supporting Simply Red and proving successful with that group's fans. [4] DJ, 59, co-founded the Boy’s Own fanzine, described as the “village newspaper of acid house”. He also hosted Boy’s Own parties with Andy Weatherall, Cymon Eccles, Steve Mayes and Steve Hall Why women are often missing in reflections on acid house is something Sheryl Garrett, the former editor of the seminal fashion and culture magazine, The Face, also wonders. The Face chronicled acid house while the movement was still in its nascency. “I’m talking at a thing at Scottish Parliament about rave culture,” she says over the phone. “I’m the only woman on the panel. You just think, ‘well why isn’t [leading dance music DJ] Lisa Loud here? Why isn’t [pioneering Balearic DJ] Nancy Noise here? Why isn’t [Shoom co-founder] Jenni Rampling here? Women were quite central to the early days of acid house.” Selvin, Joel; Young, Malcolm C. (June 11, 2017). "The Summer of Love". The Forum at Grace Cathedral. Grace Cathedral, San Francisco– via vimeo.It was at this event that Timothy Leary voiced his phrase, " turn on, tune in, drop out". [12] This phrase helped shape the entire hippie counterculture, as it voiced the key ideas of 1960s rebellion. These ideas included experimenting psychedelics, communal living, political decentralization, and dropping out of society. The term "dropping out" became popular among many high school and college students, many of whom would abandon their conventional education for a summer or more of hippie culture. Goldsmith, Julie (April 14, 2017). "Arrival of the Mobe". UC Berkeley Library Update . Retrieved May 18, 2022.

During the summer of 2007, San Francisco celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love by holding numerous events around the region, culminating on September 2, 2007, when over 150,000 people attended the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love concert, held in Golden Gate Park in Speedway Meadows. It was produced by 2b1 Multimedia and the Council of Light. [49] [50] [51] 50th anniversary [ edit ] Illumination of the Conservatory of Flowers on June 21, 2017 In Liverpool, the city has staged a 50 Summers of Love festival based on the 50th anniversary of the June 1, 1967, release of the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by The Beatles. [57] See also [ edit ] Summing up the Coalesce aesthetic as “Prada, pink fluff, silk and satin,” a 1998 review from iD Magazine observed: “The first thing that hits you is the love.” Creating a warm environment for everyone was always at the heart of Coalesce’s mission, says Maddie. “They walked in and there were flowers everywhere. It became a seasonal world of fluff and fun and love, instead of the male-dominated club world which is very dark and filled with strobe lights. I would go out in the morning and give out silly things like wands and sweets. And the men loved it too.” Savage, Jon (21 February 2009). "The history of the smiley face symbol". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 June 2016. Kath was also one of the first residents at the Manchester night Homoelectric, playing there for eight years. At the same time, her fellow Homoelectric resident Philippa Jarman owned Piccadilly Records, while Kath was managing Vinyl Exchange over the road. “There was nothing we couldn’t get hold of.”The Danny Wilson trio would not reunite on stage for another twenty-one years. In mid-2014 (around the time Gary Clark returned to live in Dundee following many years of being based in London or Los Angeles), the band briefly and secretly reformed to play a short set at a friend's wedding in Dundee. Clark announced afterwards that there were no plans to extend the reunion and that it had taken place as a favour. In major new collaboration between Frieze and Gucci to mark 30 years since the Second Summer of Love artists Wu Tsang, Jeremy Deller, Jenn Nkiru and Josh Blaaberg will present new films exploring acid house and the social and political histories behind a selection of the scenes that preceded and influenced it, from New York house to Detroit techno. The films will be released later this year.

T here were rows of men 10 deep just trying to look at what records she played. She really stood up in her world as a DJ’ – Maddie Wu Tsang is an award-wining filmmaker and artist, and director of WILDNESS, a film which tells the story of LA club The Silver Platter and the LGBT community for whom it has provided a ‘safe space’ for generations. Her projects have been presented at museums and film festivals internationally, including MoMA, Guggenheim, Whitney, LACMA, Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Berlinale, Hot Docs, and SXSW. She was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow (Film/Video) and is currently shortlisted for the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize. The media's coverage of hippie afflux in the Haight-Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson termed the district "Hashbury" in The New York Times Magazine. Away from the huge clubs, you’ll find the indomitable promoter Maddie Ridgway-Brown. Maddie has been organising upmarket underground raves since 1992. Only the well-established raver would be invited to one of her Coalesce parties.Fun fact: Her first single was released at age 14, igniting both the career of rap’s first female star and hip-hop’s first recorded beef. Shanté‘s success marked a turning point in the early days of hip-hop - the first time a woman forced the male-dominated genre to listen up and pay respect, all while moving hip-hop further toward the mainstream. A Netflix biopic came out in 2018 about her life Roxanne, Roxanne, which was co-produced by Pharrell Williams. Greater openness around sexual behavior among the hippies occurred as part of the greater "sexual revolution" which had been gathering steam throughout the '60s, but this aspect of the movement also became one of the greatest battlegrounds in the culture war between the progressive youth and social conservatives, whose knee-jerk reaction was to brand free love immoral. Fun Fact: Bruce Forest remixed 'Jesus on the Payroll' using David Cole on piano. The band completed this special "Street Mix", which Paul Oakenfold gives credit for starting the Balearic movement in the '90s. The piano riff was sampled for Bocca Juniors - Raise (63 Steps to Heaven).