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Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture

Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture

Alan Bisbort
4/5 ( ratings)
Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture gets readers past the caricature of the beatnik as a goateed, beret-wearing, bongo-playing poseur, drawing on extensive research to show just how profound an impact the beats had on American culture, politics, and literature.



Beatniks conveys the complexity, influences, events, and places that shaped the Beat Generation from the late 1940s to the cusp of the 1960s. The book also features a series of essays on specific aspects of the subculture, as well as interviews with Beat Generation luminaries like Allen Ginsberg, Ann Charters, Roy Harper and Michael McClure. Throughout, readers will meet an extraordinary gallery of people both famous--Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady--and lesser known but no less fascinating, including Kenneth Patchen, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Jack Micheline, Lew Welch, Joan Vollmer Adams, and Lenore Kandel. Also included is a detailed glossary with the origins and meanings of the beat lingo.
Language
English
Pages
180
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Greenwood
Release
November 01, 2009
ISBN
0313365741
ISBN 13
9780313365744

Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture

Alan Bisbort
4/5 ( ratings)
Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture gets readers past the caricature of the beatnik as a goateed, beret-wearing, bongo-playing poseur, drawing on extensive research to show just how profound an impact the beats had on American culture, politics, and literature.



Beatniks conveys the complexity, influences, events, and places that shaped the Beat Generation from the late 1940s to the cusp of the 1960s. The book also features a series of essays on specific aspects of the subculture, as well as interviews with Beat Generation luminaries like Allen Ginsberg, Ann Charters, Roy Harper and Michael McClure. Throughout, readers will meet an extraordinary gallery of people both famous--Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady--and lesser known but no less fascinating, including Kenneth Patchen, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Jack Micheline, Lew Welch, Joan Vollmer Adams, and Lenore Kandel. Also included is a detailed glossary with the origins and meanings of the beat lingo.
Language
English
Pages
180
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Greenwood
Release
November 01, 2009
ISBN
0313365741
ISBN 13
9780313365744

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