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The Organ.

Title: The Organ.
Publication: [Berkeley, Calif. : Himalayan Watershed Properties, c1970-

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 1, no. 1 (July 1970)-v. 1, no. 9 (July 1971)	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O74 1970 v. 1, no. 1 (July 1970)-v. 1, no. 9 (July 1971)	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Publication Date

Vol. 1, no. 1-

Description

v. : ill.; 43 cm.

Alternative Title

The Organ (Berkeley, Calif.)

Subjects

Note

Title from cover.
Focus on counterculture, exploring sexual practices and social attitudes toward them, with articles by and about counterculture notables, contemporary politics, rock and blues musicians; several issues with poetry.
Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, collages, psychedelic drawings, and cartoons by R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Greg Irons, and others, often including naked men and women.
Published by Christopher Weills, and edited by Gerard van der Leun, Jon Stewart, and Howard Pearlstein.
V. 1, no. 2 with incorrect date ("September, 1984") on front cover.
Tabloid newspaper format, folded, with color-printed wrappers
V. 1 no. 1 includes interview with Allen Ginsberg by Gerard Van der Leun, featuring a discussion of Timothy Leary's arrest on drug charges; v. 1, no. 2 with article by Jon Stewart on Taos communes; v. 1, no. 3, with article by Jack Flash on film director Kenneth Anger, and interview with blues guitarist/singer B. B. King by Sam Silver; v. 1, no. 4 features articles and personal narratives about child-birth, and an interview with film director Paul Morrissey by Scott Winokur; v. 1, no. 5 with articles on the New Right and on "The Canonization of Ayn Rand" by Jon Stewart, and an article on John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and primal scream therapy by Roland Jacopetti; v. 1, no. 6 includes an interview with members of the rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen by Dick Lupoff; v. 1, no. 7 with an article by Jon Stewart on the election of radical politicians in Berkeley and an interview with rock singer/song writer "Country" Joe McDonald with Sam Silver; v. 1, no. 8 contains articles on motorcycles and American culture, an interview with rock guitarist Jerry Garcia by Frank Fedele, an article on H. P. Lovecraft by Dick Lupoff, and an interview with Melvin Van Peebles by Howard Pearlstein; v. 1, no. 9 with articles and a comic strip on heroin use in the U.S. armed services, an article on the destructive effects of heroin use on the counterculture, an interview with Jerry Lee Lewis by Dick Lupoff, and a poem by Gary Snyder ("Control Burn").

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Numbering (note)

Issue for July 1971 lacks vol. numbering, but constitutes v. 1, no. 9.

Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O74 1970

ISSN

0742-2431

LCCN

sc 83008204

OCLC

9560068

Title

The Organ.

Imprint

[Berkeley, Calif. : Himalayan Watershed Properties, c1970-

Numbering

Issue for July 1971 lacks vol. numbering, but constitutes v. 1, no. 9.

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection holds the full run of the periodical, v. 1, no. 1 (July 1970)-[v. 1, no. 9] (July 1971).

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Added Author

Crumb, R. Contributor

Donahue, Don. Contributor

Fedele, Frank. Interviewer

Flash, Jack. Interviewer

Garcia, Jerry, 1942-1995. Interviewee

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Interviewee

Irons, Greg, 1947-1983. Artist

Jacopetti, Roland, 1937- Contributor

King, B. B. Interviewee

Lewis, Jerry Lee. Interviewee

Lupoff, Richard A., 1935-2020. Contributor

Lupoff, Richard A., 1935-2020. Interviewer

Lydon, Susan Gordon, 1943-2005. Contributor

McDonald, Joe, 1942- Interviewee

Pearlstein, Howard. Interviewer

Pearlstein, Howard. Editor

Silver, Sam. Interviewer

Van der Leun, Gerard, 1945- Contributor

Van der Leun, Gerard, 1945- Editor

Van Peebles, Melvin, 1932-2021, interviewee.

Wilson, S. Clay, 1941-2021. Artist

Winokur, Scott. Interviewer

Lost Planet Airmen (Musical group)

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O74 1970

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