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Transcript: Jack Kerouac
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- Talk of the Nation (NPR)
- Article date:
- October 27, 1998
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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Ray Suarez.
There's never just one American culture. Culturally, a bunch of Americas
always are in play at the same time, bumping into each other, rubbing
elbows, influencing each other.
In the 1950s, Ozzie Nelson and Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra were
producing one part of American culture. Kerouac, Corso, Burroughs,
Ginsberg, Gillespie and Coltrane were parts of other America's.
But you could see the country clearly in all of them.
Eventually, one culture came to lampoon the other. TV's endless stream
of variety shows in the '50s and '60s inevitably had beatnik skits,
milking the slang for laughs, all goatees ...