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Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll - The Beats and Rock Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll - The Beats and Rock Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two
of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years
- the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical
energies of rock and its attendant culture. Simon Warner examines
the interweaving strands, seeded by the poet/novelists Jack
Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others in the 1940s
and 1950s, and cultivated by most of the major rock figures who
emerged after 1960 - Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bowie, the Clash and
Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. This fascinating cultural history
delves into a wide range of issues: Was rock culture the natural
heir to the activities of the Beats? Were the hippies the Beats of
the 1960s? What attitude did the Beat writers have towards musical
forms and particularly rock music? How did literary works shape the
consciousness of leading rock music-makers and their followers? Why
did Beat literature retain its cultural potency with later rock
musicians who rejected hippie values? How did rock musicians use
the material of Beat literature in their own work? How did Beat
figures become embroiled in the process of rock creativity? These
questions are addressed through a number of approaches - the
influence of drugs, the relevance of politics, the effect of
religious and spiritual pursuits, the rise of the counter-culture,
the issue of sub-cultures and their construction, and so on. The
result is a highly readable history of the innumerable links
between two of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the
last 60 years.
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