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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847794765
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  • ML3470 .B438 2010
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Contents:
'Go moan for man': Jack Kerouac and the beatific vision -- 'Vision music': Bob Dylan via Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- 'Mantra rock': the Beatles via Allen Ginsberg -- 'Eco-Zen', or 'a heaven in a wild flower': from Gary Snyder to Nick Drake.
Subject: 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.
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Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographies and index.

'This is IT': Alan Watts and the visionary tradition -- 'Go moan for man': Jack Kerouac and the beatific vision -- 'Vision music': Bob Dylan via Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- 'Mantra rock': the Beatles via Allen Ginsberg -- 'Eco-Zen', or 'a heaven in a wild flower': from Gary Snyder to Nick Drake.

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.

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