Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song - Couverture rigide

Coupe, Laurence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719071127 ISBN 13 : 9780719071126

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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. -- .

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719071127
• ISBN 13: 9780719071126
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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