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Title Kerouac on record : a literary soundtrack / edited by Simon Warner and Jim Sampas.
Publisher New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]


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Description viii, 462 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781501323348 hardback
1501323342 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discographies (pages 399-447) and index.
Contents Foreword -- Introduction / Simon Warner -- Jack Kerouac's jazz scene / Jim Burns -- The beginning of Bop / Jack Kerouac -- 2nd chorus: Blues : Jack Kerouac / Larry Beckett -- Duet for saxophone and pen : Lee Konitz and the direct influence of jazz on the development of Jack Kerouac's 'Spontaneous prose' style / Marian Jago -- Interview 1: Lee Konitz / Marian Jago -- Jack Kerouac goes vinyl : a sonic journey into Kerouac's three LPs - Poetry for the Beat generation; Blues and haikus; and Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat generation / Jonah Raskin -- Art music : listening to Kerouac's Mexico City Blues / A. Robert Lee -- Interview 2: David Amram / Pat Thomas -- Beat refrains : music, milieu and identity in Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation / Michael J. Prince -- Bob Dylan's Beat visions (sonic poetry) / Michael Goldberg -- Carrying a torch for 'Ti Jean' / Paul Marion -- Interview 3: Richard Meltzer / Michael Goldberg -- The Grateful Dead : Jack manifested as music / Brian Hassett -- Driver : Neal Cassady's musical trip / Mark Bliesener -- Jim Morrison / Angel of Fire / Jay Jeff Jones -- Light is Faster than sound : Texans, the Beats and the San Francisco counterculture / Holly George-Warren -- Hit the road, Jack : Van Morrison and On the road / Peter Mills -- Detecting Jack Kerouac and Joni Mitchell : a literary/legal (not musicological) investigation into the search for influence / Nancy M.Grace -- Kerouac and country music / Matt Theado -- 'Straight from the mind to the voice' : spectral persistence in Jack Kerouac and Tom Waits / Douglas Field -- Interview 4: Barney Hoskyns on Tom Waits / Simon Warner -- From Beat Bop prosody to Punk Rock poetry : Patti Smith and Jack Kerouac - literature, lineage, legacy / Ronna C. Johnson -- Poems / Marc Zegans -- Interview 5: Allen Ginsberg / Pat Thomas -- Tramps like them : Jack and Bruce and the myth of the American road / Simon A. Morrison -- Interview 6: Graham Parker / Pat Thomas -- Punk and New Wave / James Sullivan -- Interview 7: Jim DeRogatis on Lester Bangs / James Sullivan -- The Kerouac tribute recordings / Jim Sampas with Simon Warner -- Appendix I: Essentials of spontaneous prose / Jack Kerouac -- Appendix II: Belief and technique for modern prose / Jack Kerouac -- Appendix III: Jack Kerouac : an annotated discography / Dave Moore -- Appendix IV: Tribute album discography / Jim Sampas -- Appendix V: Jack and Neal on record / Dave Moore and Horst Spandler.
Summary He was the king of the Beat Generation and the most dynamic novelist of his time, but Jack Kerouac had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds-from the blues to country, rockÇı'roll to Broadway ballads-and when he came to record albums under his own name, he worked with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Yet Kerouac's musical legacy goes beyond the recordings he made himself: both tribute albums to the man and soundtrack recordings accompanying movies that brought his writing to the big screen have also featured potent and original musical content. In Kerouac on Record, we consider the writer's own recorded output, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and the scores that have featured in a string of Hollywood adaptations of his fictional adventures.
Library Class English XE4111
Subject Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Influence.
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Other Author Warner, Simon, 1956- editor.
Sampas, Jim, editor.

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