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Beat Sound, Beat Vision - The Beat Spirit and Popular Song (Paperback)
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Beat Sound, Beat Vision - The Beat Spirit and Popular Song (Paperback)
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Loot Price R596
Discovery Miles 5 960
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There have been books on the Beats; there have been books on the
Beatles; but there has not been a book linking the two. Ditto Jack
Kerouac and Bob Dylan. Nor has there been a study of this range of
writers and songwriters, in relation to a central vision. This,
then, is the first sustained study of the spiritual revolution made
by the Beats and of its impact on popular song. 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, but the
range and depth of the Beat legacy within popular song is indicated
by way of an overview of some important innovators: Jim Morrison,
Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, the Incredible String Band,
Van Morrison and Nick Drake. Beat Sound, Beat Vision will appeal to
all devotees of the Beats and of the songwriters who emerged in the
seminal decade of the 1960s. It will also prove useful to students
of literature, of pop music and of religion.
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