1968
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| *[[Musique du Burundi]] by [[Michel Vuylsteke]] | *[[Musique du Burundi]] by [[Michel Vuylsteke]] | ||
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Art and culture
- May 1968 and other protests of 1968
- Assassination Martin Luther King
- Death of Situationist International
- November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
Music
- Upsetter Records founded
- Reggae coined: the word reggae was coined on a 1968 Pyramid dance single, "Do the Reggay (sic)," by Toots and the Maytals
Singles of note
- "Carolina Carol Bela" Jorge Ben & Toquinho [1]
- "Can I Change My Mind" - 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
- "Hey Jude" by The Beatles
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
Albums
- Musique du Burundi by Michel Vuylsteke
- Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
- Soft Machine by Soft Machine
- Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones
- Wheels of Fire (1968) by Cream
- Silver Apples - Silver Apples
- Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
- Caetano Veloso (1968) - Caetano Veloso
Film
- See 1968 in film
Canon
- If... by Lindsay Anderson
- Night of the Living Dead by Romero
- The Producers by Mel Brooks
- Rosemary's Baby by Polanski
- L'urlo by Tinto Brass
- Teorema by Pasolini
- Petulia by Richard Lester
- The Color Of Pomegranates by Sergei Paradjanov
- The Party by Blake Edwards
- Conqueror Worm by Michael Reeves
- Secret Cinema by Paul Bartel
- La Prisonnière by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) by Stanley Kubrick
- Targets (1968) by Peter Bogdanovich
- Yellow Submarine by George Dunning
- Death Laid an Egg by Giulio Questi
- Hatsukoi Jigokuhen by Susumu Hani
Guilty pleasures
- 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 (1968) - Jesus Franco
- Sweden: Heaven and Hell by Luigi Scattini
Literature
Fiction
- Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Non fiction
- 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
Visual culture
- Che Guevara poster by Jim Fitzpatrick (1968)
- The Kronhausens' The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art took place in public museums in the cities of Lund, Sweden, and Aarhus, Denmark, in 1968.
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)
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