Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851094008 ISBN 13: 9781851094004

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2005

Synopsis

The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity.

· Over 250 A–Z entries on the most important people, places, movements, themes, and scholarship, including entries on related cultural movements outside the United States, which set the Beats in an international context

· A chronology highlighting artistic and historical events including the legendary poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and others at the 6 Gallery

· Over 40 illustrations of Beat clothing, the Beat "pad," and the styles and tastes of the period

· Images of the most photographed literary group in history and maps of their travels, such as Jack Kerouac and his legendary freight train journeys across the United States and Mexico

About this title

Book Description:

Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Poetry readings in Greenwich Village cafes. City Lights bookstore. Timothy Leary's psychedelic community. Allen Ginsberg's writings composed under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. How did a handful of struggling writers and poets on the fringe of American culture in the 1940s launch a movement that continues to influence society?

About the Author:

William T. Lawlor, PhD, is writing emphasis coordinator and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1851094008
• ISBN 13: 9781851094004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Lawlor William T.