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„Kadzidła i miętówki”. Orientalizm a psychodeliczne okładki płytowe w drugiej połowie lat sześćdziesiątych XX wieku

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Kaźmierczak J.

Prace Kulturoznawcze

2017

vol. 21

issue 4

153-168

The article focuses on three intertwining subjects: 1) psychedelic culture of the 1960s, 2) orientalism in culture and 3) album cover art. Its most important goal is to support the process of inclusion to the discussion about the orientalist phenomenon in popular music in the 60s the problematics of the design of album covers, which had been rarely taken into consideration in such context up to this day. Secondly, regarding the fact that the narration on the reflection about the album cover art of that decade tends to focus almost entirely on the artworks related to very few musical groups — most importantly The Beatles — another aim of this article is to point to the wider range of artists, who experimented with orientalist motives both in their music and in their professional image. Psychedelia can be seen in such context as an artistic current which produced the most fertile and culturally most significant fusion between orientalism and popular music in the 1960s. As the examples of this process, the album covers of such artists as The Byrds, Curved Air, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Moody Blues, The Rolling Stones or The Strawberry Alarm Clock, et al., are being named. The formal and contextual analysis of the presented spectrum of album covers (here narrowed down solely to American and British editions) rests upon the definition of psychedelic art as an artistic action inspired by the aesthetic components of psychedelic experience, rather than occurring under the direct influence of a psychedelic drug.

War and Peace in the Rhetoric of the Psychedelic Revolution in the United States and the United Kingdom

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Dorobek A.

Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język

2017

vol. 1(5)

87-96

First, the idea of “warfare” as inherent in the initiation aspect of the psychedelic experience is discussed; then this experience is highlighted as the nucleus of the so called new consciousness, understood by T. Leary as the “revolution of the mind.” Other ideologists of the Hippie generation, though, interpreted it in terms of socio-political “warfare” (J. Sinclair), i. e. in contradiction to “love and peace”: most immediately associated with the Hippies, and here interpreted to some extent along the lines of Baudelaireian “artificial paradise.” The resulting paradoxes, as well as various meanings of “warfare” or “conflict,” are subsequently exemplified on the basis of relevant rock lyrics of the era (e.g. The Beatles, Tomorrow, Jefferson Airplane, MC5), when “artistic articulation” basically meant the musical one. Finally, the paradoxical nature of LSD as the weapon of the Hippie Revolution is elucidated through the analysis of Country Joe & the Fish’s second album.

Na początku omówiono koncepcję “walki” w kontekscie inicjacyjnego aspektu doświadczenia psychodelicznego: centralnego dla “nowej świadomości”, według T. Leary’ego oznaczającej “rewolucję na pozomie mentalnym”. Inni ideologowie pokolenia hipsowskiego interpretowali jednak “nową świadomość” w dosłownym sensie socjo-politycznej “walki” (J. Sinclair), czyli w sprzeczności z filozofią “miłości pokoju”, naturalnie kojarzoną ze światopoglądem hipisowskim, bliską też jednak “sztucznym rajom” w rozumieniu Baudelaire’a. Wynikające stąd paradoksy, jak również różne znaczenia pojęć “walki” i “konfliktu” zilustrowano następnie przykładami z klasycznych piosenek rockowych okresu rewolucji hipsowskiej (m. in. The Beatles, Tomorrow, Jefferson Airplane, MC5), wyrażającej się głównie przez muzykę. Na koniec podjęto próbę wyjaśnienia paradoksalnego charakteru LSD jako głównego oręża tejże rewolucji na przykładzie drugiego albumu grupy Country Joe & the Fish.

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„Kadzidła i miętówki”. Orientalizm a psychodeliczne okładki płytowe w drugiej połowie lat sześćdziesiątych XX wieku

War and Peace in the Rhetoric of the Psychedelic Revolution in the United States and the United Kingdom