1970
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1970 was a point when - set against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam war - the hippie ideal of peace and love lay shattered in the aftermath of Altamont, the Manson murders and the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
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Art and culture
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Music
- Minimoog
- Funk
- the musical output of black America around 1970 had changed towards funk - music which was still by predominantly black artists but generally not 4/4 (on the one and the three - James Brown would famously say. Although Brown is known as the 'Godfather of Soul', his musical style defines the difference between soul and funk - his being funk - in British cultural terminology, his music being harder and more guitar based and unlike the swirling string and brass sections of the 1960's upbeat soul) - opekta@hotmail.com in an essay on Northern Soul
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Singles
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron
- Oba La Vem Ela[1] by Jorge Ben
- Express Yourself[2] by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
- Suicide Is Painless
- A Love I Can Feel
- Ali Baba by John Holt
- Groove Me by King Floyd
- E. V. A. by Jean-Jacques Perrey
- I Like London In The Rain by Blossom Dearie
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Albums
- Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow
- Soul Rebels by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- Funkadelic by Funkadelic
- London Scene by Fela Kuti (debut album)
- Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
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Film
- Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
- Five Easy Pieces by Bob Rafelson
- Myra Breckinridge by by Michael Sarne
- The Lickerish Quartet by Radley Metzger
- Groupie Girl by Derek Ford
- Performance by Cammell and Roeg
- El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Quiet Days in Clichy by Jens Jørgen Thorsen
- Zabriskie Point by Antonioni
- Bloody Mama by Roger Corman
- Colossus: The Forbin Project by Joseph Sargent
- Gimme Shelter by - Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
- Trash by Paul Morrissey
- Hi, Mom! by Brian De Palma
- The Butcher by Claude Chabrol
- A History of the Blue Movie by Alex de Renzy
- A Summer Day by Shinkichi Tajiri
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Short films
- Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr
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Literature
- The Atrocity Exhibition by Ballard
- A Humument by Tom Philips
- The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Todorov
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
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Art
- Tourists by Duane Hanson
- Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson
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Births
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Deaths
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