Alternative and Underground Press Publications

Part One of this annotated guide is devoted to women's alternative publications, and is broken down into two sections-- Early Women's Rights Periodicals (related to the suffragist movement) and Feminist Periodicals from the women's movement that began in the 1960s.
“Included here is information about alternative press feminist newspapers and organizational newsletters, women's studies journals, and cultural magazines.” This resource would be helpful to scholars searching for secondary sources concerning women's alternative publications.

A social historian's overview of the British counterculture as represented in the British underground publications of the period, specifically Oz, It, and Friends. Includes bibliography, glossary, and index.

Excellent historical review of the alternative press throughout American history, dating from pre-Civil War to the 1980s. Coverage includes the journalistic efforts of six groups: Black Americans; utopians and communitarians; feminists; non-English-speaking immigrants; Populists, anarchists, socialists, communists, and their splinter groups; and pacifists, noninterventionists, and resisters during World War I, World War II, and Vietnam. Each chapter contains references. Highly recommended resource for background on the historical development of the alternative press in the United States.

“..the best underground press writing and over 200 graphics on the events and feeling that have shaped a whole generation. Written by people who are the counterculture they write about”.

“First person narrative accounts from the editors of the leading American litmags and small presses of the past quarter century, beginning in the seminal '60s”.

Catalog of fliers printed by the Communication Company in the Haight/Ashbury district of San Francisco, California during the late 1960s.

Collection of articles appearing in various underground newspapers in the 1960's. “One way to learn about what tomorrow may bring is to read what has become known as 'the underground newspaper'. To understand what it is that this most vocal of generations wants and believes, it is necessary to read their journals”.

Highly illustrated overall history of the underground comics. Various chapters focus on the content of the underground comics, including “Sex and Sexism,” “Violence,” “The World Around Us,” “Drugs,” and others. Many underground cartoonists got their first exposure in the underground newspapers and many still appear in these papers. Bibliographies of and about underground comics are included in this resource.

Forty-two well chosen articles from the underground press organized under groupings such as “The Redefinition of Culture: Life as Art;” “The Nature of Revolt;” “The Hippies: Flowering of a Nonmovement;” and “The Radicalization of Hip and the Reportage of Empathy.”

Covers U.S. and Canadian undergrounds from 1962 to 1982. Indexes by title and artist for undergrounds and independent/ground level comix. “'Newave' or 'new wave' comics are usually small autopublications done on photocopy machines and distributed by exchange through the mail...'groundlevel' comic books was a term used to mean comparatively rare black and white comic books not 'underground' in nature.” [Scott, p. 8.] Includes eleven features on different aspects of the undergrounds, while the introduction gives a brief overview of this genre. Illustrated with many black and white and color reproductions of comix covers.

This informative study discusses the role and proliferation of the underground press, outlines its historical context, and reviews its social and political implications. Includes a list (dated June 1971) of the “members and friends” of the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS). Also includes index, black and white illustrations, and bibliographical references.

Readable historical overview of the development of the underground press in the U.S. covering the press's impact on the mass media and the eventual “selling out” of radicalism. Includes many graphics and reprints of pages from underground papers. Contains bibliography, index, and an international listing of Underground Press Syndicate member papers.

Collection of photos and text from underground press publications during the 1960's.

The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition. It includes 3, 036 signed essays (300 of them new), alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance). The entries analyze each topic or persons significance in and relevance to American popular culture; in addition to basic factual information, readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance.

A comprehensive study of the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) and the movement it covered. Pertinent information regarding the purposes and important landmarks of the organization is contained. The author, a past contributor to the underground press, interviewed “former undergrounders and other participants” whose statements make up a large proportion of the text. The epilogue contains long passages from his sources in which they assess the underground press and its impact. Includes index and bibliography.

Mass audience-oriented book containing selected articles from various undergrounds; a good introduction to the underground press. Contains a collection of essays and articles by Timothy Leary, Huey Newton, Dick Gregory and Todd Gitlin, and covers topics such as dope and dealing, the Altamont massacre, and the Black Panthers, among others. Reprints of the underground comic “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” and other material from various undergrounds are also included.

A solid history of the evolution of underground journalism as well as a thorough analysis of the underground press in 1970, including reviews of editorial content, language analysis, and audience analysis. Chapters on campus undergrounds, military, and peace papers are included. Contains twelve black and white page reproductions from the Oracle, Avatar, and others, as well as a directory of approximately 450 underground papers, a glossary of terms, and an index. Bibliographical references are included.

“An international selection that allows the initiated and uninitiated underground press reader to follow the Movement and Counter-Culture Movement through the great adventure of these past five years.”
Chronologically-ordered classic underground articles by Jerry Farber, John Wilcock, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, John Sinclair, Tom Hayden, William S. Burroughs, Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and many others. Reprints of selected cartoons from the underground press complement the collection.

Traces the history of the underground press in London from its beginnings in the late 1950s to its demise in the late 1970s, using the British underground publications Idiot International, Black Dwarf, Friends, Friendz, Ink, Gandolf's Garden, Ox and It as primary sources. Includes bibliography and index.

A collection of “The Little Free Press,” a newsletter proposing a new Utopia and free society.