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Beat sound, beat vision : the beat spirit and popular song / Laurence Coupe.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3477 .C68 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coupe, Laurence, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--1961-1970.
- Popular music.
- Beats (Persons).
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- Popular music--Great Britain--1961-1970.
- Beats (Persons)--Philosophy--Influence.
- Beats (Persons)--Influence.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719071126
- 0719071127
- OCLC:
- 154210019
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