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Beat sound, Beat vision : the Beat spirit and popular song / / Laurence Coupe



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Autore: Coupe Laurence Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beat sound, Beat vision : the Beat spirit and popular song / / Laurence Coupe Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
Disciplina: 782.42164
810.90054
Soggetto topico: Beat generation - Influence
Popular music - 1961-1970
Soggetto non controllato: 1960s
Alan Watts
Allen Ginsberg
Beat movement
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Gary Snyder
Jack Kerouac
counterculture
songwriters
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on usage; Introduction; 1. 'This is IT':Alan Watts and the visionary tradition; 2. 'Go moan for man':Jack Kerouac and the beatific vision; 3. 'Vision music': Bob Dylan via Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; 4. 'Mantra rock':the Beatles via Allen Ginsberg; 5. 'Eco-Zen', or 'a heaven in a wild flower':from Gary Snyder to Nick Drake; Postscript; Select bibliography; Index.
Sommario/riassunto: 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, bu.
Titolo autorizzato: Beat sound, Beat vision  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-207-1
1-84779-476-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826072703321
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