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Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song
Beat Sound Beat Vision The Beat Spirit and Popular Song
Author: Laurence Coupe
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719071126
ISBN-10: 0719071127
Publication Date: 7/15/2007
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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