Text and drugs and rock 'n' roll : the Beats and rock culture /: the Beats and rock culture. (2013)
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- Book
- Title:
- Text and drugs and rock 'n' roll : the Beats and rock culture /: the Beats and rock culture. (2013)
- Main Title:
- Text and drugs and rock 'n' roll : the Beats and rock culture
- Further Information:
- Note: Simon Warner.
- Authors:
- Warner, Simon, 1956-
- Contents:
- AcknowledgementsCreditsPrefaceRock and rock'n'roll: A short note to the readerIntroductioni) How the Beats met rock: Some history and some contextii) Charting the Beats: Background and impactiii) Beat and rock: A survey of associationiv) The Beats' own recordings: A selective discography Chapter 1 – Sifting the shifting sands: Allen Ginsberg, 'Howl' and the American landscape in the 1950sInterlude A – Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A survivor surveysInterview 1 - David Amram, jazz musician and Beat composer, including the Pull My Daisy soundtrackChapter 2 – Chains of flashing memories: Bob Dylan and the Beats, 1959-1975Interview 2 – Michael McClure, poet and author of The Beard Chapter 3 – Muse, moll, maid, mistress? Beat women and their rock'n'roll legacyChapter 4 – Raising the consciousness: Re-visiting Allen Ginsberg's 1965 trip to Liverpool Q&A 1 – Michael Horovitz, poet, publisher and British BeatInterview 3 – Larry Keenan, photographer of 'The Last Gathering of the Beats' in San Francisco in 1965 Obituary 1 – Peter Orlovsky, 'Member of the Beat Generation, poet and lover of Allen Ginsberg' Interlude B – All Neal: Cassady celebrated in downtown DenverQ&A 2 – Mark Bliesener, rock band manager and a founder of Neal Cassady's memorial day in DenverChapter 5 – The British Beat: Rock, Literature and the British Counterculture in the 1960sInterview 4 – Pete Brown, British poet and rock lyricist for CreamQ&A 3 – Jonah Raskin, Ginsberg biographer and cultural historian Chapter 6 – TheAcknowledgementsCreditsPrefaceRock and rock'n'roll: A short note to the readerIntroductioni) How the Beats met rock: Some history and some contextii) Charting the Beats: Background and impactiii) Beat and rock: A survey of associationiv) The Beats' own recordings: A selective discography Chapter 1 – Sifting the shifting sands: Allen Ginsberg, 'Howl' and the American landscape in the 1950sInterlude A – Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A survivor surveysInterview 1 - David Amram, jazz musician and Beat composer, including the Pull My Daisy soundtrackChapter 2 – Chains of flashing memories: Bob Dylan and the Beats, 1959-1975Interview 2 – Michael McClure, poet and author of The Beard Chapter 3 – Muse, moll, maid, mistress? Beat women and their rock'n'roll legacyChapter 4 – Raising the consciousness: Re-visiting Allen Ginsberg's 1965 trip to Liverpool Q&A 1 – Michael Horovitz, poet, publisher and British BeatInterview 3 – Larry Keenan, photographer of 'The Last Gathering of the Beats' in San Francisco in 1965 Obituary 1 – Peter Orlovsky, 'Member of the Beat Generation, poet and lover of Allen Ginsberg' Interlude B – All Neal: Cassady celebrated in downtown DenverQ&A 2 – Mark Bliesener, rock band manager and a founder of Neal Cassady's memorial day in DenverChapter 5 – The British Beat: Rock, Literature and the British Counterculture in the 1960sInterview 4 – Pete Brown, British poet and rock lyricist for CreamQ&A 3 – Jonah Raskin, Ginsberg biographer and cultural historian Chapter 6 – The Sound of the Summer of Love? The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper, the hippies and Haight-AshburyQ&A 4 – Levi Asher, founder of acclaimed Beat website Literary KicksInterview 5 – Ronald Nameth, Beat film-maker and director of the film of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable Chapter 7 – The Meltzer chronicles: Poet, novelist, musician and historian of Beat America Review 1 – Book: David Meltzer, Beat ThingInterview 6 – Bill Nelson, British rock guitarist and Beat followerQ&A 5 – Jim Sampas, notable Beat record producer including Kerouac: Kicks Joy DarknessChapter 8 – Versions of Cody: Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits and the song 'On the Road' Chapter 9 – Feeling the bohemian pulse: Locating Patti Smith within a post-Beat traditionChapter 10 – Jim Carroll: Poetry prodigy, post-Beat and rocker Obituary 2 – Jim Carroll, 'Poet and punk musician who documented his teenage drug addiction in The Basketball Diaries' Chapter 11 – All cut up? William Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge's beatnik past Interview 7 – Steven Taylor, Ginsberg's guitarist and member of the FugsChapter 12 – Steven Taylor: A Beat Englishman in New York Q&A 6 – Pete Molinari, British singer-songwriter with Beat leaningsChapter 13 – Return to Lowell: A visit to the Commemorative and Kerouac's grave Review 2 – Film: One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big SurReview 3 – Album: One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur Q&A 7 – Chris T-T, British political singer-songwriter Obituary 3 – Tuli Kupferberg, 'Key figure in the US 1960s counterculture'Q&A 8 – Kevin Ring, editor of the magazine Beat SceneReview 4 – Album: On the Road: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackAppendix – Jack & Neal on recordBibliography, Discography, Filmography, Broadcasts, Personal Communication and Interviews. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (544 pages)
- Subjects:
- 782.4216609045
Beat generation
Rock music
Popular culture
Music and literature - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781441171122
1441171126 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781628926279
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