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Art and culture

• May 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
• "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac

Albums

• Musique du Burundi
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
• Soft Machine
• 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

• Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt (1968) by Christian Enzensberger

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)