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1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 - 1980

Art and culture

• Stanford prison experiment
• Oz Issue 28, otherwise known as "Schoolkids OZ" became a cause celebre during and following the prosecution of its editors for obscenity

Literature

Fiction

• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
• Eden, Eden, Eden by Pierre Guyotat

Non-fiction

• Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
• Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies by Manny Farber
• The World of Art Deco
• The Dismemberment of Orpheus
• Steal This Book
• While reading a draft of Paglia's thesis in 1971, Harold Bloom wrote in the margin that a passage was "Mere Sontagisme!" Paglia later wrote, "It saddened me, but I knew Bloom was right. Susan Sontag, who could have been Jane Harrison's successor as a supreme woman scholar, had become synonymous with a shallow kind of hip posturing." --Paglia, "Vamps & Tramps,"

Music

• Strata East Records founded 1971
• New York Dolls formed
• Northern Soul coined
  • Soul record guru Dave Godin actually first coined the phrase 'Northern Soul' sometime around 1971 when writing his column in Blues and Soul magazine.
• Punk coined
  • The term punk rock was coined by Dave Marsh, who used it to describe the music of ? and the Mysterians in the May 1971 issue of Creem magazine.
• First dub recording
  • In 1971 the first real dub recordings began to appear, with The Hippy Boys' "Voo Doo" - the version to Little Roy's "Hard Fighter", which was mixed by Lynford Anderson a.k.a. Andy Capp - now widely acknowledged to be the first recording in the genre.

Albums

• Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott-Heron
• Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
• Tago Mago by Can
• There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone

Singles

• Smiling Faces Sometimes by the Undisputed Truth
• Theme De Yo Yo by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
• Funky Nassau by The Beginning of the End
• What You See Is What You Get by The Dramatics

• The JBs - Gimme Some More
• Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
• Little Sister - You're the One [1]
• Booker T. & MGs - Melting Pot
• Dorothy Morrison - Rain
• The Rotary Connection feat. Minnie Ripperton - Black Gold of the Sun
• S.O.U.L. - Burning Spear
• Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) by The Temptations
• Maggie May/Reason to Believe by Rod Stewart

Film

• The Devils by Ken Russell
• Klute (1971) - Alan J. Pakula
• Mysteries of the Organism (1971) - Dusan Makavejev
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
• Death in Venice (1971) - Luchino Visconti
• Harold and Maude (1971) - Hal Ashby
• The Last Picture Show (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich
• Bananas (1971) - Woody Allen
• Play Misty for Me (1971) - Clint Eastwood
• THX 1138 (1971) - George Lucas
• Vampyros Lesbos (1971) - Jess Franco
• Viva la Muerte by Fernando Arrabal
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - Mel Stuart
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Monte Hellman
• Duel (1971) - Steven Spielberg
• Le Chat (1971) - Pierre Granier-Deferre
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - Robert Fuest
• Venom by Peter Sykes
• Goodbye Uncle Tom
• Le Chat
• Straw Dogs (1971)
• Dirty Harry (1971)

Births

Deaths

• Joe Colombo (1930 - 1971)
• Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971)
• Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 -1971)
• Ludwig Marcuse (1984 - 1971)
• Georg Lukács (1885 - 1971)
• Arne Jacobsen (1902 – 1971)