The GI pRESS experience In independent publishing in the 1960s

Abstract

One of the phenomena that most influenced american public opinion and beyond, and that we can connect to the biggest phenomenon of the underground press, is undoubtedly what is commonly defined as GI Press. But what are we talking about when we refer to GI Press and what does the acronym GI mean and where does it come from?

GI Press is the set of periodicals and other printed products almost always produced anonymously and distributed through an alternative distribution system to the mainstream one, directly by young Americans in military service during the conflict that saw Vietnam opposed the United States of America.

The analysis of these magazines that saw their greatest diffusion precisely during the 1960s and 1970s, allows us today to underline how the voices coming directly from the front, and more generally the entire editorial production of the counterculture, had the ability to shift the political-cultural discussion within the public debate not only in the United States.