Thursday, October 31, 2019

Toronto Counterculture of the 1960's Conference: Me and Angela Davis!

How is Henry David Thoreau connected to the Monkees?
Mike Nesmith's Song: Different Drum-famously recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys

They also use the quote about "the mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation".

And if that isn't enough for you, most of my focus lately has been on the Monkees, as well as HDT (and Twain). And I'm giving a talk about them and how they helped me create my own mental map of connections between great artists.

The conference is officially called The (re)making of a Movement: New Perspectives on the 1960's Counterculture and I'm presenting at it.  What's more, I'll be presenting a talk about my blog Six Degrees of Monkees and the relationship map I'm creating. <insert fangirl scream of well-earned pride here>

The description is below. I'm on after Angela Davis. She's a tough act to follow, but I hope to channel all my (nervous) energy into being inspired by her.

Very happy to help represent the Monkees and their importance in the counterculture movement of the 1960's!


==



Counterculture on the Radio & TV


Nov 2, 2019 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Main Loft

Tammy Rose, MBA, MS, User Experience Research Lead

Six Degrees of Monkees in a Relationship Map of CounterCulture
The Monkees phenomenon involved music & a TV show, and an unusual amount of connections that make it the center of American counterculture. Despite being dismissed as bubblegum, from 1965 to 1968, the brand encompassed a wide variety of non-commercial memes from Vietnam protest references to Frank Zappa to their most infamous masterpiece, the movie HEAD. An extensive relationship map visualizes any and all references to people, works and concepts to the Monkees. Almost anyone working in Hollywood prior to 1980 can be connected to the Monkees by a low number of degrees. Sex, drugs and rock and roll as well as cynicism were regularly snuck into America’s living rooms and fed into the minds of children.