A report on Beat Generation
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
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Rolling Thunder Revue
1 links1975–1976 concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with numerous musicians and collaborators.
1975–1976 concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with numerous musicians and collaborators.
Dylan, Beat Generation colleague Ginsberg and various band members visited Kerouac's gravesite.
Beat (2000 film)
0 links2000 American biographical drama film written and directed by Gary Walkow, and starring Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Norman Reedus, and Ron Livingston.
2000 American biographical drama film written and directed by Gary Walkow, and starring Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Norman Reedus, and Ron Livingston.
In 1944 New York City, beat writers and students Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and David Kammerer all become acquainted with Joan Vollmer, a student at Barnard College.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 linksEighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
Eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg said of the album: "After the apocalypse of Hitler and the apocalypse of the Bomb, there was here an exclamation of joy, the rediscovery of joy and what it is to be alive."
The Source (1999 film)
0 links1999 documentary film directed by Chuck Workman.
1999 documentary film directed by Chuck Workman.
The film is about the Beat Generation and its impact on the counterculture movements from the 1960s-70s onwards and features appearances by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, and John Turturro each reciting one writer's work (as with Turturro reciting Howl) to another.
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1 links1997 American drama film directed by Stephen T. Kay.
1997 American drama film directed by Stephen T. Kay.
He also revealed he was a fan of Cassady and other Beat writers as a teenager, reflecting that "To me, these writers represented the epic language they used invoking the Greek and Roman gods. That Bacchus and Dionysian aspect resonated with me, and I used that to try and read my life and break out of myself, search for new sensations--living the moment, staying up late, traveling, experiencing."
Brooklyn College
1 linksPublic university in Brooklyn, New York.
Public university in Brooklyn, New York.
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), Beat Generation poet and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist; Distinguished Professor of English from 1986 to 1997, replacing Ashbery (who accepted a MacArthur Fellowship and later moved to Bard College)
Jim Cohn
2 linksPoet, poetry activist, and spoken word artist in the United States.
Poet, poetry activist, and spoken word artist in the United States.
In 1996, Jim began planning for an online poetry project that would explore Beat Generation influences on the Postbeat Poets.
The Beat Generation
1 links1959 American crime film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, James Mitchum, Vampira, and Ray Anthony.
1959 American crime film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, James Mitchum, Vampira, and Ray Anthony.
It is a sensationalistic interpretation of the beatnik counterculture of the "Beat Generation" (and is sometimes considered one of the last films noir to be produced.) The movie was also shown under the title This Rebel Age.
Corso: The Last Beat
1 links2009 documentary film, with on-screen narration by Ethan Hawke and appearances by Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso.
2009 documentary film, with on-screen narration by Ethan Hawke and appearances by Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso.
The Beat Generation’s Gregory Corso became one of four in the inner circle of the Beats, along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs.
Sputnik 1
1 linksThe first artificial Earth satellite.
The first artificial Earth satellite.
The American writer Herb Caen was inspired to coin the term "beatnik" in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958.