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  1. Biography

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Coca Crystal
| birth_name = Jacqueline Diamond
| birth_date = December 21, 1947
| birth_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S
| death_place = Rochelle Park, New Jersey, U.S
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|03|01|1947|12|21|mf=yes}}
| parents = Jack Diamond
Rita Dunn
| occupation = Television personality
}}Coca Crystal (December 21, 1947 – March 1, 2016) was an American television personality and political activist, connected with 1960s counterculture.[1] She was best known for her weekly cable-access variety show The Coca Crystal Show: If I Can't Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution, which ran from 1977 to 1995.[2][3]

Biography

Born as Jacqueline Diamond on December 21, 1947, to Jack Diamond, owner of J. Diamond Furs and Rita Dunn, a former fur model.[4] She was born in Manhattan and raised in Mamaroneck.[4]

Starting in 1969, she was a contributor to the East Village Other (EVO) and the name Coca Crystal was created as her pen name.[5] She would write about politics, women's issues and personal events, many of which earned her the title "slumgoddess".[6]

Her cable-access, weekly variety show television show The Coca Crystal Show: If I Can't Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution would always start out with lighting a joint, oftentimes she would be pulling the joint from a flower pot and then smoking it.[3] She would talk about protests, anti-nuke activism, local and world news with special segment called Newborn News and invite a wide variety of guests. Some guests on her show included: Philip Glass, Debbie Harry, Abbie Hoffman, Judith Malina, Cesar Chavez, Dana Beal, and Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs.[3][4] One of her frequent guests, Glenn O'Brien went on to host his own long running public-access television show, TV Party after he appeared on Coca's show.[7]

In 2013, a play written, via interview with Coca Crystal and titled If I Can't Dance You Can Keep Your Revolution: The Coca Crystal Story was performed by Danielle Quisenberry.[12] The play was shown at Emerging Artists Theatre, TADA! Theater, and part of the East Village Theater Festival at Metropolitan Playhouse in New York City.[8][9][10]

Crystal died of respiratory failure on March 1, 2016 in Rochelle Park, New Jersey at age 68.[4] In 2006 she was diagnosed with lung cancer and had struggled with many treatments prior to her passing.[2]

See also

  • TV Party
  • The Poetry Project's Public Access Poetry
  • Potato Wolf TV by Collaborative Projects (COLAB)
  • Jamie Davidovich's The Live! Show (1979-1984)

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://flavorwire.com/570654/forgotten-female-saints-of-the-counterculture|title=Forgotten Female Saints of the Counterculture|website=Flavorwire|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-19}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://localeastvillage.com/2012/05/13/coca-crystal-a-wild-child-turned-unconventional-mother/|title=Coca Crystal, a Wild Child Turned 'Unconventional' Mother|last=Oldershausen|first=Sasha Von|date=2012-05-13|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-12-16}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://unconscious-and-irrational.blogspot.com/2009/03/coca-crystals-dance-revolution.html|title=Coca Crystal's Dance Revolution|last=Unconscious and Irrational|first=|date=2009-03-21|website=Unconscious and Irrational|access-date=2016-04-19}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/nyregion/coca-crystal-avatar-of-counterculture-dies-at-68.html|title=Coca Crystal, Avatar of Counterculture and Provocateur, Dies at 68|last=Grimes|first=William|date=2016-04-02|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-19}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://evgrieve.com/2016/04/rip-coca-crystal.html|title=RIP Coca Crystal|website=EV Grieve|access-date=2016-04-20}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://eastvillageother.org/recollections/crystal|title=Recollections, Crystal|website=East Village Other|access-date=2016-04-20}}
7. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ok2_CQAAQBAJ&dq|title=Downtown Film and TV Culture: 1975–2001|last=Hawkins|first=Joan|publisher=Intellect Books|year=2015|isbn=1783204222|location=|pages=}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/with-new-play-coca-crystal-gets-an-east-village-other/|title=On Stage, Coca Crystal Gets an East Village Other|last=Maurer|first=Daniel|website=The Local East Village|access-date=2016-04-19}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://allevents.in/events/if-i-cant-dance-you-can-keep-your-revolution-the-coca-crystal-story/547074871998808|title=If I Cant Dance You Can Keep Your Revolution: The Coca Crystal Story|website=allevents.in|access-date=2016-04-19}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/338059|title=One Woman Standing|website=Brown Paper Tickets (BPT)|access-date=2016-04-19}}

External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/user/Cocacrystal82/discussion Coca Crystal's Youtube videos]
  • [https://plus.google.com/107081335714392354763 Coca Crystal's Google+]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapttwBQmZQ Promo for The Coca Crystal Show: If I Can’t Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution] (1994)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcdDVMqY0I The Final Coca Crystal Show] (June 16, 1995)
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