1968  

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1968 was the year of the Protests of 1968.

Art and culture

• Protests of 1968
• Situationist International at its apex
• First issue of King Mob Echo magazine
• April 4 - Assassination of Martin Luther King
• 6 May - Start of the May 1968 events in France
• June 3 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
• November 1 - In the United States, the MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Music

• Upsetter Records founded
• The word reggae is coined on a 1968 Pyramid dance single, "Do the Reggay" (sic) by Toots and the Maytals

Singles

• Can I Change My Mind by Tyrone Davis
• Requiem pour un con by Serge Gainsbourg
• Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela
• Don't Bogart Me by Fraternity of Man
• Man with a Harmonica by Ennio Morricone
• On the Road Again by Canned Heat
• Feel Like Jumping by Marcia Griffiths
• Man Next Door by John Holt
• People Funny Boy by Lee "Scratch" Perry
• Full Up by Sound Dimension
• Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells
• Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone
• You Goin' Miss Your Candyman by Terry Callier
• Drum Song by Jackie Mittoo
• The Horse by Cliff Nobles
• Vesoul by Jacques Brel

Albums

• Musique du Burundi by various
• Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka recorded, released in 1971
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds
• The Soft Machine by Soft Machine
• Silver Apples by Silver Apples
• Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
• Caetano Veloso by Caetano Veloso
• Feliciano! by José Feliciano
• Gris-Gris by Dr. John the Night Tripper

Film

• November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Canon

• Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
• Targets by Peter Bogdanovich
• The Party by Blake Edwards
• if.... by Lindsay Anderson
• Rosemary's Baby by Roman Polanski
• Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero
• Petulia by Richard Lester
• The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Paradjanov
• Witchfinder General by Michael Reeves
• The Secret Cinema by Paul Bartel
• Black Panthers by Agnès Varda

Guilty pleasures

• La Prisonnière by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Death Laid an Egg by Giulio Questi
• Psych-Out by Richard Rush
• I Am Curious (Blue) by Vilgot Sjöman
• They Call Us Misfits - Swedish documentary
• Barbarella by Vadim
• Candy by Christian Marquand
• Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden by Jesus Franco
• Sweden: Heaven and Hell by Luigi Scattini
• The Howl by Tinto Brass

Literature

Fiction

• Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass

Non fiction

• Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt by Christian Enzensberger
• Kitsch: The world of Bad Taste by Dorfles
• The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
• Bomb Culture by Jeff Nuttall
• Rationale of the Dirty Joke by Gershon Legman
• Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
• "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" by Anne Koedt
• "A Quick Trip Through My Adolescence" by Lester Bangs
• Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
• The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
• Thinking About Women by Mary Ellmann

Visual culture

• Che Guevara poster by Jim Fitzpatrick
• The Kronhausens' The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art took place in public museums in the cities of Lund, Sweden, and Aarhus, Denmark.
• Chelsea Girls (Alan Aldridge poster)
• Tapp und Tastkino, performance art by Valie Export

Births

• Green Velvet aka Curtis Jones, an electronic and house music singer, songwriter and producer
• Chris Ofili
• Kodwo Eshun
• Monica Bellucci

Deaths

• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
• Erwin Panofsky (1892 - 1968)
• Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889 - 1968)
• Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)
• John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (b. 1891)