1957
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1957 was the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Roth v. United States
- The term psychedelia is coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy.
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Art
- Founding of the Situationist International (1957-1972)
- Vortex Concerts
- The Creative Act, speech by Marcel Duchamp
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Music
- Stax Records founded
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Albums
- Exotica by Martin Denny
- Jazz Mood by Yusef Lateef
- Word Jazz by Ken Nordine
- Elsa Popping et sa musique sidérante by André Popp
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Singles
- "Dans mon île" by Henri Salvador
- "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) by Harry Belafonte
- "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry
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Literature
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Fiction
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
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Non-fiction
- Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
- Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
- Mythologies by Roland Barthes
- Evergreen Review, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1957
- The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn
- Die Welt als Labyrinth by Gustav René Hocke
- The Grotesque in Art and Literature by Wolfgang Kayser
- Les monstres de Bomarzo by André Pieyre de Mandiargues
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Film
- I Vampiri by Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda
- The Curse of Frankenstein by Terence Fisher
- A Face in the Crowd by Elia Kazan
- Heaven and Earth Magic by Harry Smith
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Guilty pleasures
- The Story of Mankind by Irwin Allen
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Births
- January 7 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist.
- February 3 - Steven Stapleton, British musician (Nurse With Wound)
- March 5 – Mark E. Smith, English singer and songwriter (The Fall) (d. 2018).
- March 20 – Spike Lee, American film director and actor
- December 6 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1999)
- Lee Siegel (1957 - )
- Nathalie Du Pasquier (1957 - )
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Deaths
- Wilhelm Reich (1897 - 1957)
- Erich von Stroheim (1885 - 1957)
- James Whale (1889 - 1957)
- Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)
- Wyndham Lewis (1882 – 1957)
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