Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song Hardback - 2007
by Laurence Coupe
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- Title Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song
- Author Laurence Coupe
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Manchester University Press, Manchester
- Date September 4, 2007
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780719071126
- 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
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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.