Beatniks - A Guide to an American Subculture

Informationen zum Autor Alan Bisbort has authored or coauthored 16 books on history, biography, travel, as well as social and cultural issues. He has worked for the Library of Congress on World War II: A Library of Congress Desk Reference (2007). He is coauthor of The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress (2000), the official guide for the Library's bicentennial, and was a contributor to The Civil War: A Library of Congress Desk Reference (2002). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This is a revealing look at the events and personalities that defined the Beat Generation! drawing on over three decades of research.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Bisbort, Bisbort Alan
• Verlag: Greenwood Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 7 bis 17 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.11.2009
• EAN: 9780313365744
• ISBN: 978-0-313-36574-4
• Seiten: 176
• Serien: Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures; Guides to Subcultures and Coun; Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, REFERENCE / Research