Beat sound, Beat vision
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1960s
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Alan Watts
Allen Ginsberg
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Beat movement
Beatles
Bob Dylan
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counterculture
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Gary Snyder
Jack Kerouac
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songwriters
Product details
- ISBN 9780719071133
- Weight: 277g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term ‘Beat Zen’, and who influenced the counterculture which emerged out of the Beat movement, it celebrates Jack Kerouac as a writer in pursuit of a ‘beatific’ vision. On this basis, the book goes on to explain the relevance of Kerouac and his friends Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder to songwriters who emerged in the 1960s. Not only are new, detailed readings of the lyrics of the Beatles and of Dylan given, but the range and depth of the Beat legacy within popular song is indicated by way of an overview of some important innovators: Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, the Incredible String Band, Van Morrison and Nick Drake.
Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University
