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1971 (MCMLXXI) is the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.

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
• 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire

Literature

Fiction

• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
• Eden, Eden, Eden by Pierre Guyotat
• The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.
• The Nazi and the Barber by Edgar Hilsenrath

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 by Bevis Hillier
• The Dismemberment of Orpheus by Ihab Hassan
• Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
• The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
• In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner
• "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" by Linda Nochlin
• Les Chefs-d'œuvre du Kitsch by Jacques Sternberg
• How to Read Donald Duck (1971) by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart

Music

• Strata East Records founded 1971
• New York Dolls formed
• Northern Soul coined
  • Soul record guru Dave Godin 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
• Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka
• Barefoot Boy by Larry Coryell
• Tapestry by Carole King
• Link Wray by Link Wray
• Silver World by Hōzan Yamamoto

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 Bird by Jimmy McGriff
• Gimme Some More by The JBs
• You're the One by Little Sister
• Melting Pot by Booker T. & MGs
• Black Gold of the Sun by The Rotary Connection feat. Minnie Ripperton
• Burning Spear by Sounds Of Unity and Love (S.O.U.L.)
• Mr. Big Stuff by Jean Knight
• It's Too Late by Carole King
• N.T. by Kool & the Gang

Film

• The Devils by Ken Russell
• Klute by Alan J. Pakula
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism by Dušan Makavejev
• A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
• Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti
• Harold and Maude by Hal Ashby
• Minnie and Moskowitz by John Cassavetes
• The Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich
• Bananas by Woody Allen
• Play Misty for Me by Clint Eastwood
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by Mel Stuart
• Two-Lane Blacktop by Monte Hellman
• Duel by Steven Spielberg
• Le Chat by Pierre Granier-Deferre
• Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah
• Dirty Harry by Don Siegel
• Vanishing Point by Richard C. Sarafian
• The Hired Hand by Peter Fonda
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Guilty pleasures

• Goodbye Uncle Tom by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi
• Venom by Peter Sykes
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes by Robert Fuest
• Vampyros Lesbos by Jess Franco
• Viva la Muerte by Fernando Arrabal
• THX 1138 by George Lucas
• Naughty! by Stanley Long

Births

• January 9 – MF Doom, British rapper (d. 2020)

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)