Beatniks

Author : Alan Bisbort
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031336575X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatniks written by Alan Bisbort and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revealing look at the events and personalities that defined the Beat Generation, drawing on over three decades of research. Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture gets readers past the caricature of the "beatnik" as a goateed, beret-wearing, bongo-playing poseur, drawing on extensive research to show just how profound an impact the beats had on American culture, politics, and literature. Beatniks conveys the complexity, influences, events, and places that shaped the Beat Generation from the late 1940s to the cusp of the 1960s. The book also features a series of essays on specific aspects of the subculture, as well as interviews with Beat Generation luminaries like Allen Ginsberg, Ann Charters, Roy Harper and Michael McClure. Throughout, readers will meet an extraordinary gallery of people both famous—Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady—and lesser known but no less fascinating, including Kenneth Patchen, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Jack Micheline, Lew Welch, Joan Vollmer Adams, and Lenore Kandel. Also included is a detailed glossary with the origins and meanings of the beat lingo.

Author : Toby Litt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatniks written by Toby Litt and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1995, and at a party in Bedford, Mary meets Jack and Neal, a pair of hipsters and self - confessed 'Beats' stuck (un)squarely in the sixties. After a 'Beat (not - quite) Happening' at the local library, the three of them (and Neal's cat Koko) set off in Mary's Vauxhall on a road trip to Brighton in search of literary fame and fortune. But, this is neither the time nor the place for free love, uncomplicated sex and unrestrained cool - this is 1990s Britain and everything comes with a price . . .

Author : Blake Scott Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190090480
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlie Brown's America written by Blake Scott Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

Author : Diego Arandojo
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683964039
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatnik Buenos Aires written by Diego Arandojo and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When night falls in Buenos Aires, the city comes alive. Artists flock to cafes and dives to exchange ideas, listen to music, watch outré performance art, pen poetry, fall in love. In these raucous, smoke-filled rooms, the bohemian heart and soul of this vibrant city, a conflagration of creative energy burns. With the improvisational pacing of a jazz performance, Beatnik Buenos Aires follows the lives of writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, and performers as they wind their way through these hubs of creative life, seeking out inspiration and grappling with their craft. Set in 1963, this graphic novel celebrates a time in Argentine history when its art scene blossomed.

Author : Diane Di Prima
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714530758
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Beatnik written by Diane Di Prima and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Beatnik is an account of a young artist coming of age sensually and intellectually. The book grew out of the author's own experience as a bold and independent woman who dropped out of college at the age of 18 in order to write.

Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher : Stonehill Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Beatnik Glory written by Ed Sanders and published by Stonehill Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sincere young poet seeks fame and fortune amid the coffee houses, sex orgies, political and social protests, and freakish characters of Greenwich Village during the late fifties and early sixties.

Author : SARA. LO VETERE MUTANDE (ANDREA.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995118003
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Camping Cook Book written by SARA. LO VETERE MUTANDE (ANDREA.) and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995142343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thank You written by Dana Winter and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author's first picture book, 'Thank you' invites readers to experience the wonder, vibrancy and generosity of our natural world"--Publisher's website.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846882616
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beat Generation written by Jack Kerouac and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Sara Pendergast
Publisher : UXL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms written by Sara Pendergast and published by UXL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hairstyles, slang terms, advertising jingles, pop music sensations, and all else described as popular culture is covered in this 5-vol. reference. Arranged chronologically by decade and by broad topics within each decade, Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms focuses solely on the popular culture of the century -- hairstyles, slang terms, television shows, pop music sensations, etc. -- offering more detailed information on trends and fads than any other resource. Written specifically for students in grades 5 through 12, major topics include: products and brands, toys and games, music and dance, holidays, shopping, sports, movements and much more. Also includes approximately 400 photos, a cumulative table of contents, timeline, subject and cumulative general index and trivia sidebars.