Beat sound, Beat vision : the Beat spirit and popular song /

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...

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Main Author: Coupe, Laurence, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2010.
Series:Contemporary American & Canadian Writers.
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