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Kerouac on Record - A Literary Soundtrack (Paperback)
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Kerouac on Record - A Literary Soundtrack (Paperback)
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He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the
most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a
lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of
New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand
during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and
Thelonious Monk to the fore. The novelist, most famous for his 1957
book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to
bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a
torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950
and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American
popular music of all kinds - from the blues to Broadway ballads -
and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married
his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented
musicians on the scene. Kerouac's musical legacy goes well beyond
the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused
generations of music makers who followed in his work - from
singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest
transatlantic names - Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison
and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death
Cab for Cutie, and many more - credited Kerouac's impact on their
output. In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought
his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record
releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more
recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive
and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations
of the adventures he brought to the printed page.
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