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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Washington Square Park
1 links9.75 acre public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
9.75 acre public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Later, the park was a gathering area for the Beat generation, folk, and hippie movements in the 1950s and 1960s; in 1958, musician Buddy Holly, a nearby resident of Greenwich Village, spent time in the park both listening to people play and helping guitarists with musical chords.
Morphine (band)
1 linksAmerican alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989.
American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989.
Sandman sang distinctively in a "deep, laid-back croon", and his songwriting featured a prominent beat influence.
On the Road (2012 film)
3 links2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles.
2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles.
The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the late 1940s with his friend Neal Cassady and several other Beat Generation figures who would go on to fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
Vanity of Duluoz
1 links1968 semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac.
1968 semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac.
It culminates with the beginnings of the beat movement.
Christopher Felver
1 linksChristopher Felver (born October 1946) is an American photographer and filmmaker who has published several books of photos of public figures, especially those in the arts, most notably those associated with beat literature.
Steely Dan
0 linksAmerican rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).
American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).
Fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after a "revolutionary" steam-powered dildo mentioned in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.
Hedwig Gorski
0 linksAmerican performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism."
American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism."
Unlike the Beats, Gorski wrote her stylized narrative and moody lyrical poetry only for performance with the music composed by D'Jalma Garnier specifically for each poem.
Ann Charters
2 linksProfessor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
Professor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
She is a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar.
So I Married an Axe Murderer
0 linksAxe Murderer is a 1993 American romantic black comedy film, directed by Thomas Schlamme and starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis.
Axe Murderer is a 1993 American romantic black comedy film, directed by Thomas Schlamme and starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis.
Charlie MacKenzie is a popular local beat poet living in San Francisco who makes his frequent break-ups the subject of his poems.
Jim Morrison
5 linksAmerican singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors.
American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors.
Beat Generation writers such as Jack Kerouac and libertine writers such as the Marquis de Sade also had a strong influence on Morrison's outlook and manner of expression; Morrison was eager to experience the life described in Kerouac's On the Road.