Dayglo Koans and Spiritual Renewal: 1960s Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters and the Broadening of American Spirituality
This article focuses on the influence of Eastern "ways of liberation" such as Buddhism and Taoism on the creative activity of a vibrant visionary subculture in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district from 1965-1969. Part of a larger study of psychedelic rock concert posters, this pape...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2004]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the influence of Eastern "ways of liberation" such as Buddhism and Taoism on the creative activity of a vibrant visionary subculture in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district from 1965-1969. Part of a larger study of psychedelic rock concert posters, this paper addresses the particular influence of Eastern mystical philosophy on the visual rhetoric of these San Francisco posters and its cultural impact as it radiated outwards from there. In addition to visual elements such as iconography and visual style, the posters are seen as attempting visually to represent the paradoxical logic central to the "enlightenment" experience of those and other mystical religious traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.7.1.002 |