Rock and the Beat Generation
RBP contributor Simon Warner's Substack newsletter devoted to the musical legacy of the Beats.
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Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac: The Legend of Zimmerman
Retrospective by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, 24 September 2021
Bob Dylan delighted in the tales he could spin to embroider his early biography and Jack Kerouac adapted his own life for fictional purposes. ...
Jack Kerouac: The many sounds of Kerouac's On the Road
Retrospective by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, 2 February 2022
Kerouac's most famous book is obviously first and foremost a written text. But the refrains of music ripple through its rolling adventures and there are ...
Tom Waits: Alex Harvey: Song Noir – Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles (Reaktion Books)
Book Review by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, July 2022
I REVIEWED Rickie Lee Jones' vividly illuminating autobiography Last Chance Texaco in these pages earlier this year, applying a Beat microscope to her always energetic, ...
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