{"id":66887,"date":"2025-06-07T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=66887"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:46:19","slug":"this-was-my-song-it-is-ours-now-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/06\/this-was-my-song-it-is-ours-now-more-than-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"This Was My Song \u2014 It Is Ours Now More Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long, long ago \u2014 in 1970 to be precise \u2014 the Berkeley radio station KPFA borrowed a collage of mine for the cover of its guide. I believe it was Charles Amirkhanian<\/a> who prompted them to use it \u2014 and this is how it appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a9 1970 by jh<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I had titled it \u201cThis Is My Song,\u201d thinking it was a kind of obituary for the 1960s. KPFA added “quadraphonic RADIO” and “April 24\/25, 1970” to the image, although it had nothing to do with four-channel surround sound. The collage was also used several times elsewhere for other reasons, including in Fantastic Architecture<\/a>,<\/em> which was edited by Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins and published by Something Else Press (since reprinted in a facsimile edition by Primary Information). And now, with the Trump regime\u2019s attack on the arts and humanities both by defunding federal grants to support them and using unmitigated propaganda about \u201cwrong ideology,\u201d the collage seems more apt then ever \u2026 even if I say so myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Nanos Valaoritis<\/a> had the original, which I gave him because he admired it. It is probably among his papers, either in his archive at Princeton or elsewhere.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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