Pendulum Legend

Alpha Voices Begin to Appear

Alpha Voice in Technology . . . the Corvette

Alpha Voices in Literature . . . Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger

Alpha Voices in Music

1958—A New Musical Genre . . . Rock n’ Roll

The Alpha Voices of literature often pay a heavy price for their immortality: Salinger went into deep seclusion for the rest of his life and Kerouac drank himself to death.

—Michael R. Drew