Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song PDF
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Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page i Beat sound, Beat vision Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page ii Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page iii Beat sound, Beat vision The Beat spirit and popular song Laurence Coupe Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page iv Copyright © Laurence Coupe 2007 The right of Laurence Coupe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published byManchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British LibraryCataloguing-in-Publication Data Acatalogue recordfor this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 0 7190 7112 6 hardback First published 2007 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset by Helen Skelton, Brighton, UK Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page v Contents Acknowledgements page ix Anote on usage xi Introduction 1 1 ‘This is IT’: Alan Watts and the visionary tradition 22 2 ‘Go moan for man’: Jack Kerouac and the beatific vision 56 3 ‘Vision music’: Bob Dylan via Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg 79 4 ‘Mantra rock’: the Beatles via Allen Ginsberg 121 5 ‘Eco-Zen’, or ‘a heaven in a wild flower’: fromGary Snyder to Nick Drake 164 Postscript 207 Select bibliography 209 Index 215 Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page vi Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page vii To Marina Warner Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page viii Coupe 00 22/3/07 01:04 Page ix Acknowledgements I am grateful to the colleagues who have helped, in various ways, to ensure that this book got written: Berthold Schoene, Jeff Wainwright and Sue Zlosnik. Thanks are due also to Matthew Frost at MUP for his enthusiastic encouragement and good-humoured support. Finally, I am indebted, as always, to my wife, Margaret – not forgetting our friends, Pauline and Simon Butler.
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