News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song

by Laurence Coupe - £15.99  Manchester University Press (2010)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780719071133 | ISBN 10: 0719071135

This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them.
 
Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term ‘Beat Zen’, and who influenced the counterculture which emerged out of the Beat movement, it celebrates Jack Kerouac as a writer in pursuit of a ‘beatific’ vision. On this basis, the book goes on to explain the relevance of Kerouac and his friends Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder to songwriters who emerged in the 1960s.
 
Not only are new, detailed readings of the lyrics of the Beatles and of Dylan given, but the range and depth of the Beat legacy within popular song is indicated by way of an overview of some important innovators – Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, the Incredible String Band, Van Morrison and Nick Drake.

(Price & availability last checked: February 2019)

Order by email

×

Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song - by Laurence Coupe

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song

by Laurence Coupe

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: Music, Politics & Activism, Music Memoirs and Biographies, The Beatles,
In categories: Music & Performing Arts, History & Biography, Local Interest,