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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Theatre 1.2 Literature 1.3 Cinema 1.4 Music 1.5 Theory 1.6 Art 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

Theatre

• Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet
• The Maids by Jean Genet
• The Breasts of Tiresias

Literature

• Under the Volcano
• Jean-Jacques Pauvert reprints de Sade
• The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
• The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) - Anne Frank

Cinema

• Cinema 16
  • Amos Vogel created the path-breaking film society Cinema 16 in 1947, introducing a continent to previously unseen worlds of experience.
• Anger 1 [1947] - Kenneth Anger

Music

• The term "Rhythm and Blues" was coined in 1947 by Jerry Wexler as a replacement for the terms "race music" "sepia music" and "Harlem Hits Parade" during a reorganization of the Billboard charts
• Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

Theory

• What Is Literature? by Sartre
• From Caligari to Hitler (1947) by Siegfried Kracauer
• Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre

Art

• I was a Rich Man's Plaything[1], a collage by artist Eduardo Paolozzi.

Births

Deaths