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Preface
Rock and rock ’n’ roll: A short note to the reader
INTRODUCTION
i) How the Beats met rock: Some history and some context
ii) Charting the Beats: Background and impact
iii) Beat and rock: A survey of association
iv) The Beats’ own recordings: A selective discography
1 SIFTING THE SHIFTING SANDS: ALLEN GINSBERG, ‘HOWL’ AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE IN THE 1950s
INTERLUDE A – LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: A SURVIVOR SURVEYS
INTERVIEW 1 – DAVID AMRAM, JAZZ MUSICIAN AND BEAT COMPOSER, INCLUDING THE PULL MY DAISY SOUNDTRACK
2 CHAINS OF FLASHING MEMORIES: BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATS, 1959–1975
INTERVIEW 2 – MICHAEL MCCLURE, POET AND AUTHOR OF THE BEARD
3 MUSE, MOLL, MAID, MISTRESS? BEAT WOMEN AND THEIR ROCK ‘N’ ROLL LEGACY
4 RAISING THE CONSCIOUSNESS? RE-VISITING ALLEN GINSBERG’S 1965 TRIP TO LIVERPOOL
Q&A 1 – MICHAEL HOROVITZ, POET, PUBLISHER AND BRITISH BEAT
INTERVIEW 3 – LARRY KEENAN, PHOTOGRAPHER OF ‘THE LAST GATHERING OF THE BEATS’ IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1965
OBITUARY 1 – PETER ORLOVSKY, ‘MEMBER OF THE BEAT GENERATION, POET AND LOVER OF ALLEN GINSBERG’
INTERLUDE B – ALL NEAL: CASSADY CELEBRATED IN DOWNTOWN DENVER
Q&A 2 – MARK BLIESENER, ROCK BAND MANAGER AND A FOUNDER OF NEAL CASSADY’S MEMORIAL DAY IN DENVER
5 THE BRITISH BEAT: ROCK, LITERATURE AND THE UK COUNTERCULTURE IN THE 1960s
INTERVIEW 4 – PETE BROWN, BRITISH POET AND ROCK LYRICIST FOR CREAM
Q&A 3 – JONAH RASKIN, GINSBERG BIOGRAPHER AND CULTURAL HISTORIAN
6 THE SOUND OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE? THE BEATLES AND SGT. PEPPER, THE HIPPIES AND HAIGHT-ASHBURY
Q&A 4 – LEVI ASHER, FOUNDER OF BEAT WEBSITE LITERARY KICKS
INTERVIEW 5 – RONALD NAMETH, BEAT FILM-MAKER AND DIRECTOR OF THE FILM OF THE EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE
7 THE MELTZER CHRONICLES: POET, NOVELIST, MUSICIAN AND HISTORIAN OF BEAT AMERICA
REVIEW 1 – BOOK: DAVID MELTZER, BEAT THING
INTERVIEW 6 – BILL NELSON, BRITISH ROCK GUITARIST AND BEAT FOLLOWER
Q&A 5 – JIM SAMPAS, BEAT RECORD PRODUCER INCLUDING KEROUAC: KICKS JOY DARKNESS
8 VERSIONS OF CODY: JACK KEROUAC, TOM WAITS AND THE SONG ‘ON THE ROAD’
9 FEELING THE BOHEMIAN PULSE: LOCATING PATTI SMITH WITHIN A POST-BEAT TRADITION
10 JIM CARROLL: POETRY PRODIGY, POST-BEAT AND ROCKER
OBITUARY 2 – JIM CARROLL, ‘POET AND PUNK MUSICIAN WHO DOCUMENTED HIS TEENAGE DRUG ADDICTION IN THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
11 ALL CUT UP? WILLIAM BURROUGHS AND GENESIS P-ORRIDGE’S BEATNIK PAST
INTERVIEW 7 – STEVEN TAYLOR, GINSBERG’S GUITARIST AND MEMBER OF THE FUGS
12 STEVEN TAYLOR: A BEAT ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK
Q&A 6 – PETE MOLINARI, BRITISH SINGER-SONGWRITER WITH BEAT LEANINGS
13 RETURN TO LOWELL: A VISIT TO THE COMMEMORATIVE AND KEROUAC’S GRAVE
REVIEW 2 – FILM: ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR
REVIEW 3 – CD: ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR
Q&A 7 – CHRIS T-T, BRITISH POLITICAL SINGER-SONGWRITER
OBITUARY 3 – TULI KUPFERBERG, ‘KEY FIGURE IN THE US 1960S COUNTERCULTURE’
Q&A 8 – KEVIN RING, EDITOR OF THE MAGAZINE BEAT SCENE
REVIEW 4 – CD: ON THE ROAD: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Appendix – Kerouac and Cassady on record
Bibliography, discography, filmography, broadcasts, personal communication and interviews
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