The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters - Couverture souple

Weidman, Rich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1617136018 ISBN 13 : 9781617136016

Editeur : Backbeat, 2000

Synopsis

The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's prophetic, William Blakean-style poem Howl (1956) and William S. Burroughs' groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity trials, while Jack Kerouac's highly influential novel On the Road (1957) was blamed by the establishment for corrupting the nation's youth and continues to this day to serve as a beacon of hipster culture and the bohemian lifestyle. The Beat writers shared a vision for a new type of literature, one that escaped the boundaries of academia and employed an organic use of language, inspired by the spontaneity and improvisational nature of jazz music and abstract expressionism (Kerouac coined this writing style spontaneous prose). In search of deeper meaning, Beat Generation writers experimented not only with language but also with spirituality, art, drugs, sexuality, and unconventional lifestyles. Although the movement as a whole flamed out quickly in the early 1960s, replaced by the onset of the hippie counterculture, the Beats made an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness and left a long-lasting influence on its art and culture. This book details the movement-its works, its creative forces, and its legacy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rich Weidman is a writer and editor from Florida. His works include The Doors FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock, The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters, Guns N' Roses FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Bad Boys of the Sunset Strip, and Breaking Bad FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Hustlers, Bunsen Burners, and Heisenberg, as well as several regional travel guides. He is also the editor of a travel blog called Wandering Florida and an avid hiker.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Backbeat
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617136018
• ISBN 13: 9781617136016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible