Article: Finding Kerouac beneath the Beat legend

Article: A Compact Guide to Sources for Teaching the Beats.(beat generation of American literature)(Critical Essay)
College Literature;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Beats. Neither group envisioned the Beat Generation as part of the curriculum in schools...incorporate the literature of the Beat Generation, and in many instances, entire courses...example, one must determine whether a Beat Generation actually exists. If the Beat ...

Article: And the beat goes on...Beat Generation artists make comeback at festival
University Wire;  October 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......purposeless 40 to 50 years ago. The Beat Generation and the counter-culture movement of...will get the chance to experience the Beat Generation firsthand as three of its surviving...America's living legends from the Beat Generation. A literary and social movement in...

Article: For the Beat Generation, a new generation
The Boston Globe;  October 12, 1997 ;     419 words ......Burroughs and other shining lights of the Beat Generation look out at the new generation passing...introducing a new generation of kids to the Beat Generation. Whether they know it or not, they...who are not considered part of the Beat Generation, to show some of the artistic ...

Article: Beat Generation
The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      104 words ...00-00-0000 Beat Generation Beat Generation The Beats (reputedly from beatific ) were a loosely organized literary set of the 1950s that celebrated spontaneity and condemned the Babbitry of middle-class life. They included poets Lawrence FERLINGHETTI...

Article: Beat Generation leader Wally Hedrick dies at 75
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 26, 2003 ;     88 words ......iconoclastic artist and leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, has died. He was 75. Hedrick died of congestive heart failure...Gallery, a major hangout for artists and writers of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. It was there that Allen Ginsberg read his...

Article: Poet Allen Ginsburg Reflects on `The Beat Generation'
NPR All Things Considered;  January 31, 1993 ;     700+ words ......collection of spoken words CDs, The Beat Generation. Poet Allen Ginsburg was part of the...vocal music. JACK KEROURAC: [in The Beat Generation] Now it's jazz. The place is roaring...everything is going to the beat. It's the Beat Generation. It's [unintelligible]. It's the beat...

Article: GINSBERG LINKED BEAT GENERATION WITH MTV
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......County, NJ) 04-06-1997 GINSBERG LINKED BEAT GENERATION WITH MTV By JEFFREY PAGE, Staff Writer...upheavals from the earliest days of the Beat Generation just after World War II to the counterculture...managed to close the gap between the Beat Generation and the Establishment, winning ...

Article: John Clellon Holmes, 62, `Beat Generation' author
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 2, 1988 ;     407 words ......writing until a few months ago. The Beat Generation and its lifestyle surfaced in Mr...Holyoke, Mass., was a companion of Beat Generation exponents Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg...as the definitive chronicle of the Beat Generation. The writings of Mr. Holmes, Kerouac...

Article: The cool and hip lives of the '50s beat generation
Sunday Star-Times;  March 16, 1997 ;     383 words ...WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION, by Brenda Knight, Conari Press (distributed in New Zealand...at the glass, missed and killed Vollmer outright. She was the beat generation's first female martyr. She wouldn't be the last, for beatnik...

Article: Artist Wally Hedrick, 75; his gallery played a key role in Beat Generation
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 26, 2003 ;     288 words ......his gallery played a key role in Beat Generation THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 12-26-2003...leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, has died. He was 75. Mr. Hedrick...hangout for artists and writers of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. It was there that Allen...

Article: "The Beat Generation"
Philadelphia Tribune, The;  February 20, 2004 ;     188 words ......Ryan Philadelphia Tribune, The 02-20-2004 The phrase "The Beat Generation" conjures up images of literary outlaws who broke convention...The brainchild of BBE Records founder Peter Adarkwah, "The Beat Generation" series returns to hip-hop's roots with purists that include...

Article: `Big Daddy' Nord, known as `king of beat generation'
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 30, 1989 ;     155 words ......Calif. Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, 69, known as the "king of the beat generation" whose hungry i nightspot in San Francisco showcased Lenny...on cigarette smoke at the nightclub, drugs and misguided beat generation leaders. Mr. Nord was dubbed "Big Daddy" because of his 6-...

Article: Beat Generation Photos on Display in Pa.
AP Online;  October 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......black-and-white photographs, "Allen Ginsberg: Beat Generation Photographer," Wednesday, Oct. 1...photographed the best minds of the Beat generation _ including Jack Kerouac, William...photographed the best minds of the Beat Generation in between the bursts of creativity...

Article: The Beat Generation: Critical Essays.(Book Review)
World Literature Today;  October 1, 2003 ;     475 words ...The Beat Generation: Critical Essays. Kostas Myrsiades, ed. New York. Peter Lang. 2002...enlightening introductory essay to this collection, Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X, has been drawn within the literature departments...