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Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song
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Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song Hardcover - 2007

by Coupe, Laurence

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Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them; clean black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, text bright and unmarked; d/j has light creasing to top edges; very good working/reading copy; pp xi, 217
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  • Title Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song
  • Author Coupe, Laurence
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manchester University Press, Manchester
  • Date 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 018096
  • ISBN 9780719071126 / 0719071127
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.68 x 6.6 x 0.95 in (22.05 x 16.76 x 2.41 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

From the rear cover

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' vision. On this basis, the book goes on to explain the relevance of Kerouac and his friends Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder to songwriters who emerged in the 1960s. Not only are new, detailed readings of the lyrics of the Beatles and of Dylan given, but the range and depth of the Beat legacy within popular song is indicated by way of an overview of some important innovators: Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, the Incredible String Band, Van Morrison and Nick Drake.

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About the author

Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University