Beat Culture : Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact

The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the arrest of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti on obscenity charges; Beat dress and speech; and the Beat "pad." Through more than 250 entries, which travel from New York to New Orleans, from San Francisco to Mexico City, students, scholars, and those interested in popular culture will taste the era's rampant freedom and experimentation, explore the impact of jazz on Beat writings, and discover how Beat behavior signaled events such as the sexual revolution, the peace movement, and environmental awareness. On The Road. Naked Lunch. Howl. These Iconic Works Of The Beat Generation Capture The Spirit Of A Time In The Latter Half Of The 20th Century When A New Generation Of Writers, Poets, Musicians, And Artists Celebrated The Inspiring Individuality Of Americans, Explored America's Immensity And Diverse Geography, And Sought Satisfaction In Unrestrained Experience. Simultaneously, Many Beat Artists Questioned Almost Every Social, Cultural, And Political Convention In American Life. With Scholarly Contributions From Around The World, Beat Culture Is The Definitive Guide To One Of The Most Vibrant And Challenging Periods In American Cultural And Political History. Sex And Morality. Drugs And Delinquency. War And Peace. Madness And Serene Contemplation. These Are All Still Contemporary Concerns For Young People And Their Parents, But The History Of The Beat Generation Shows That Such Considerations Are Far From New. This Essential Guide Brings The Movement That Defined An Era To A New Audience And Explains To Today's Generation Of Young People The Ideas That Motivated Their Parents And Grandparents.--book Jacket. Part I. General Introduction -- Part Ii. Chronology -- Part Iii. Entries -- Algiers, Louisiana -- Allen, Don -- Allen, Steve -- Amram, David -- Anarchy, Christian -- Anderson, Joan, Letter About -- Aphorisms, Slogans -- Apollinaire, Guillaume -- Apomorphine Treatment -- Atomic Era -- Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones) -- Beat And Beatnik -- Beat Conferences, University Of Massachusetts, Lowell -- Beatitude -- Be-in -- Berman, Wallace -- Big Sur -- Black Mountain, North Carolina, And Black Mountain College -- Blackburn, Paul -- Blakey, Art -- Bohemian Movements: Predecessors Of The Beats -- Bowles, Jane -- Bowles, Paul -- Brautigan, Richard -- Bremser, Bonnie -- Bremser, Ray -- Breton, Andre -- Brooks, Eugene -- Brossard, Chandler -- Bruce, Lenny -- Buckley, Lord -- Bukowski, Charles -- Burroughs, Ilse Herzfeld Klapper -- Burroughs, William Seward -- Burroughs, William Seward, Jr. (iii) -- Caen, Herb -- Cage, John -- Cannastra, Bill -- Carr, Lucien -- Carroll, Paul -- Cassady, Carolyn -- Cassady, Neal -- Censorship -- Charters, Ann -- Charters, Sam -- Chase, Haldon Hal -- Cherry Valley, New York -- Clausen, Andy -- Cold War -- Coleman, Ornette -- Coltrane, John -- Communism And The Workers' Movement -- Confession -- Conformity -- Conner, Bruce -- Corso, Gregory -- Cowen, Elise -- Creeley, Robert -- Cunningham, Merce -- Curriculum, Beats In The -- Dance -- De Kooning, Willem -- Defeo, Jay -- Denver, Colorado -- Desolation Peak -- Di Prima, Diane -- Dorn, Ed -- Drugs -- Duncan, Robert -- Dylan, Bob -- Eastern Culture -- Ellvins, Kells -- Environmentalism -- Europe, Bohemian Movements Related To The Beat Movement In -- Everson, William (brother Antoninus) -- Fariña, Richard -- Fellaheen -- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence -- Film -- First Poetry-jazz Concert -- Florida House Of Kerouac -- Frank, Robert -- Furthur/ Further -- Gaddis, William -- Gaillard, Slim -- Genet, Jean -- Gillespie, Dizzy -- Ginsberg Archive, Sale Of The -- Ginsberg, Allen -- Glass, Philip -- Goddard, Dwight -- Goodrow, Gary -- Gordon, Dexter -- Gorky, Arshile -- Grauerholz, James -- Gray, Wardell -- Guthrie, Woody -- Gysin, Brion -- Happening -- Hawkins, Coleman -- Herms, George -- Holiday, Billie -- Holmes, John Clellon -- Huncke, Herbert -- Hunt, Tim -- Influences -- Joans, Ted -- Johnson, Joyce -- Jones, Hettie -- Juvenile Delinquency -- Kammerer, David Eames -- Kandel, Lenore -- Kaufman, Bob -- Kenton, Stan -- Kerouac Archive, Sale Of The -- Kerouac, Jack -- Kerouac, Jan -- Kerouac, Joan Haverty -- Kesey, Ken Elton -- Kinsey Report -- Kline, Franz -- Konitz, Lee -- Krim, Seymour -- Krupa, Gene -- Kupferberg, Tuli -- Kyger, Joanne -- La Vigne, Robert -- Lamantia, Philip -- Landesman, Jay And Fran Landesman -- Language And Idiom Of The Beats -- Leary, Timothy -- Legacy -- Legman, Gershon -- Lexington, Kentucky -- Library Holdings -- Lipton, Lawrence -- Literary Forms -- Little Magazines -- London -- Lowell, Massachusetts -- Mailer, Norman -- Marriage -- Marshall, Edward -- Martinelli, Sheri -- Materialism -- Mcclure, Joanna -- Mcclure, Michael -- Mead, Taylor -- Mekas, Jonas -- Meltzer, David -- Memory -- Mental Illness -- Merry Pranksters -- Merton, Thomas -- Mexico City -- Micheline, Jack -- Miles, Barry -- Mingus, Charles -- Moloch (also Molech) -- Monk, Thelonious Sphere -- Montgomery, John Mcvey -- Motherwell, Robert -- Mountains, Beats In The -- Museum Of Modern Art Exhibition: Fantastic Art, Dada, And Surrealism (1936) -- Music -- Nakedness -- Naropa Institute -- Native American Cultures -- New Orleans -- New Waverly, Texas -- New York City -- New York University Conferences On Beat Culture: The Beat Generation: Legacy And Celebration And The Writings Of Jack Kerouac (1994 And 1995) -- News Media And Publicity, The Beats And -- Nicosia, Gerald -- Norse, Harold -- O'hara, Frank -- Olson, Charles -- On The Road, 1982 Conference The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Of The Publication Of -- On The Road, New York Times Review Of -- On The Road, Sale Of The Scroll Of -- Orlovsky, Peter -- Pad, The Beat -- Painting -- Paris, The Beats In -- Parker, Charles Christopher (charlie) -- Parker, Edie -- Party, The Beat -- Patchen, Kenneth -- Paterson, New Jersey -- Performance Humor -- Perkoff, Stuart Z. -- Perry Lane -- Photography -- Pleasure In Life -- Plymell, Charles -- Pollock, Jackson -- Pommy Vega, Janine -- Publishers -- Rauschenberg, Robert -- Red Scare (the First And Second Red Scares) -- Reich, Wilhelm -- Reinhardt, Ad -- Religion, The Beats And -- Rexroth, Kenneth -- Rimbaud, Arthur -- Rivers, Larry -- Rocky Mount, North Carolina -- Rosenthal, Bob -- Rosenthal, Irving -- Rumaker, Michael -- Saint Mark's Poetry Project -- Sampas Kerouac, Stella -- Sampas, Sebastian -- San Francisco -- San Francisco Poetry Renaissance -- Sanders, Ed -- Scholarship And Critical Appreciation, A Survey Of -- Sculpture -- Sea, Beats At -- Selby, Hubert, Jr. -- Sexism And Misogyny -- Sexual Attitudes And Behavior -- Sexual Freedom -- Shearing, George -- 6 Gallery Reading -- Snyder, Gary -- Sociological Interpretations -- Solomon, Carl -- Sommerville, Ian -- Spicer, Jack -- Spontaneity, The Beat Generation And The Culture Of -- Styles Of Dress, The Beats And -- Suffering -- Tangiers -- Teachers, Beats As -- Technology, Beats And -- Theater -- Thompson, Hunter Stockton -- Travel: The Beats As Globetrotters -- Trungpa, Chogyam -- Tytell, John -- Upton, Charles -- Vancouver Poetry Conference (1963) -- Venice Beach -- Vollmer Adams Burroughs, Joan -- Waldman, Anne -- Warhol, Andy -- Watts, Alan -- Wavy Gravy (hugh Romney) -- Welch, Lew -- Whalen, Philip -- White, Josh -- Whitney Museum Exhibition: Beat Culture And The New America 1950-1965 -- Wieners, John -- Williams, Cootie -- Williams, William Carlos -- Wobblies -- Wolfe, Tom -- Young, Lester. Edited By William T. Lawlor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Thematic Entry List......Page 9 General Introduction......Page 13 A - K......Page 55 L - Z......Page 249 Index......Page 435