UUS_mss492.xml Guide to the Jeff Goldberg papers1972-1974 Goldberg, (Jeff)1972-1974 Finding aid/Register created by Andrew Izatt Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
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©2013 Encoded in oXygen XML editor by Andrew Izatt, 2013 June 10 . Finding aid encoded in English . Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Overview of the Collection UUS_COLL MSS 492 Jeff Goldberg papers 1972-1974 Goldberg, Jeff. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Manuscript Collections
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-8248 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
1 Boxes 0.5 Linear Feet This collection chronicles the artistic circle known as the "Electric Generation." Material in English

Processed in June of 2013

The Jeff Goldberg papers were purchased by USU Special Collections from F.A. Bernett Books in 2013.

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Jeff Goldberg papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Initial Citation: Jeff Goldberg papers USU_COLL MSS 492, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 492, USUSCA.

Biographical Note

Jeff Goldberg was the founder of Contact magazine in the early 1970s. The magazine became the de-facto forum of literary and artistic expression by the emerging “Electric Generation”—a small cadre of post-beat and pre-punk artists and writers centered in Philadelphia and New York City. These included the writers and performers Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie who often collaborated as “Bockris-Wylie,” Otis Brown, Marty Watt, and Goldberg himself. Jeff Goldberg went on to build a career as a journalist and author while Andrew Wylie became a well-known literary agent. Victor Bockris continued to write, producing biographies of Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, and Patti Smith.

The collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspapers, clippings, and ephemera produced by influential members of the “Electric Generation.” Prominent among these materials is a set of correspondence between Jeff Goldberg and Victor Bockris dating from 1973 to 1974.

The Jeff Goldberg papers are arranged by document type.

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Includes note and photo from Bobbie Bristol

 1 6 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 October 12 1 7 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 October 12 1 8 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 October 17 1 9 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 October 29 1 10 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 November 3 1 11 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 November 6 1 12 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1973 December 3 1 13 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris 1974 January 21 1 14 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 15 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 16 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 17 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 18 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 19 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 20 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 21 To Jeff Goldberg from Victor Bockris undated 1 22 To Jeff Goldberg from Lewis MacAdams 1973 September 10 - 1974 January 29

Includes two letters and "Caught in the Act" - MacAdams' account of an encounter with Chris Burden's perfomance art, with corrections; signed by author in blue ink

 Photographs undated 1 23 Andy Warhol undated

Andy Warhol at work by Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie

 1 24 Andy Warhol undated

Andy Warhol at work by Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie

 1 25 Andy Warhol undated

Andy Warhol talking on the phone by Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie

 1 26 Yoko Ono undated

Yoko Ono in a recording studio by Bockris-Wylie

 1 27 Yoko Ono undated

Yoko Ono performing by Bockris-Wylie

 1 28 Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie undated

By Neil Benson

 Miscellaneous 1973 1 29 A Corrected Transcript of a Week In Philadelphia Contact 1,2,3 (1) undated 1 30 A Corrected Transcript of a Week In Philadelphia Contact 1,2,3 (2) undated 1 31 “An American Game: A License Plate Game to Play Along the Way” undated

With covered collage including a photo of Frank Sinatra and a cut-off felt top from a "Souvenir Pennant." Also laid-in: torn b/w photo from magazine featuring several celebrities. Occasional writing & all 50 states' license plate stickers throughout

1 32 The Harvard Calendar undated

Four or five non-descript entries

 1 33 Torn Cardboard undated

Apparently ripped from an LP album cover with hand-written note, "Leave arnd [sic] noon Tuesday Jan 20 1976..."

 1 34 Broadside by John Wieners from Middle Earth Books 1973

Broadside No.1/From a Reading in Celebration of [*]. The poem is "Yes, the youth are marching on against the world..."

 1 35 “The Arrival of John Wieners” undated

Short poem inside by Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie

 1 36 Mass: Verse in the U.S. Since 1955, A Course Given in the Beacon Hill Free School at Stone Soup by John Wieners undated

Introduction and Chronological Outline

 1 37 Flyer: Winter 1973 Beacon Hill Free School 1973

Information on the school's upcoming classes

 Newspapers/Clippings 1973-1974 1 38 The Drummer 1972 October 12 - 19 1 39 Article: “Out Rage Us”; The Drummer : “Tom Pickard: Carrying Coals From New Castle”; Article by Jim Quinn 1973 February 20

“Out Rage Us”: A short piece about poetry performance including Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, Jeff Goldberg, and Marty Watt

“Tom Pickard: Carrying Coals From New Castle": By Jeff Goldberg (w/photo of Pickard)

Article by Jim Quinn: "One of the big empty places in American writing is the absence of any real working class attitudes..."

 1 40 The Drummer : “Philly’s Library Literary Scene Emerges: LIP and Contact: New Words from Young Writers” 1973 March 13

"Philly's Literary Scene Emerges..." by Ken Bluford; A review of the two magazines edited by Victor Bockris (LIP) and Jeff Goldberg (Contact)

 1 41 The Village Voice 1974 May 30

Header: "The Staple Life" with one entry circled in ink: "Philadelphia's poetry scene thrives" with contact information for Jeff Goldberg

 1 42 Philadelphia Daily News 1973 October 19

Contains article: "Sansom Street Block Party to Show Why City is New Hotbed of Poetry" with black & white photos of (1) Jeff Goldberg and (2) Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie and microfilm copy of the same article

 1 43 The Drummer 1973 August 28

Contains article: "Bockris-Wylie See Paul McCartney in Newcastle" by Bobbie Bristol on page 7; Also: book reviews by Jeff Goldberg & Bobbie Bristol, and others on pg. 12

 1 44 The Drummer 1973 December 25 - 1974 January 1

Contains article: "Warhol: A Long Story About A Renaissance Man: first of two parts" by Bockris-Wylie (with b/w photos); and "Warhol: Second of Two Parts" by Bockris-Wylie