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Books on: beat generation

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The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation

Book by Gregory Stephenson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1990

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...major works of the Beat Generation were printed and began...this definition, the Beats were, indeed, a generation...inheritance from the Lost Generation is less from its illustrious...Henry Miller. The Lost Generation was divested of beliefs...parallels with the Beat Generation are nearly exact. The Beats were a product of the...
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American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation

Book by Jonah Raskin; University of California Press, 2004

Subjects:

Beat Generation, Ginsberg, Allen--1926---Knowledge--Psychology, Ginsberg, Allen--1926---Psychology, Literature And Mental Illness--United States--History--20th Century, Mental Illness In Literature, Poetry--Psychological Aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...an ideological leap, linking the Beat Generation to gangs and gang violence. The spirit of hipsterism and the Beat Generation strikes me as the same...several incisive articles About the Beat Generation, Lamb, No Lion, and...
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Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers

Book by Nancy M. Grace, Ronna C. Johnson; University Press of Mississippi, 2004

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Authors, American--20th Century--Interviews, Beat Generation, Beat Generation--Interviews, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women Authors, American--Interviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...metaphorizing process. In the Beat generation memoir women writers have been...of Beat literature, women Beat writers revise Beat using strategies that do not appear to alter the normative Beat culture by which they as women...amalgam of generic forms, Beats female memoirists (re)tell...
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Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film

Book by David Sterritt; Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

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American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Experimental Films--United States--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...gleaned from the history of "beat" as a descriptive term. The...adjective in something like its Beat Generation meaning appear to have been...became an inspiration for all the Beat writers. Other core Beats picked up the word in turn...
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Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

Book by David Sandison, Graham Vickers; Chicago Review Press, 2006

Subjects:

Beat Generation--Biography, Cassady, Neal, United States--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...certainly. They have served the beats poorly, and if time lends...youre busy making plans. Heart Beat (1979), based on an early...made after his death: The Beat Generation: An American Dream (1987...1999). Janet Formans The Beat Generation is the best of these...

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Journal Articles on: beat generation

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The Beat Generation: Community Policing at Its Best

Journal article by William D. Eggers, John O'Leary; Policy Review, 1995

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Crime prevention--Citizen participation, Volunteer workers in law enforcement--Analysis

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The beat generation: community policing at its...fighting. Rather than regular beats, foot patrols, and informal...cops back on the neighborhood beat. "Beat integrity," the...tolerable behavior and order. Beat officers cant impose their...
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Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album

Journal article by Thomas Mcgovern; Afterimage, Vol. 30, 2003

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...Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album. by Thomas McGovern...McDarrahs Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album, re-release...literary conventions with an off-beat and rude attack on the stifling...essays about that misunderstood Beat generation that range from...create an anthology of the Beats. He has currently authored...
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Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters

Journal article by Oliver Harris; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000

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Beat generation--Political aspects, Cold War--Influence, Dissenters--Literature, Ginsberg, Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kerouac, Jack--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Letter writing--Political aspects, Narration (Rhetoric)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rosenberg, Ethel--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Rosenberg, Julius--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...all of us to return to Beat Generation 1947 confessions and...The scattering of the Beats was both physical and...This is the mythos of a Beat Eden, a prelapsarian...prison walls the Beat generation, featuring Kerouacs...the martyrdom of the Beat muse becomes both a...expression of the economy the Beats sought to oppose and...
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"After All, What Else Is There to Say?" Ed Sanders and the Beat Aesthetic

Journal article by David Herd; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 19, 1999

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Beat generation--Literature, Ginsberg, Allen--Influence, Sanders, Ed--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...straightforward celebration of Beat values but rather a...cost of refusing. The Beats refuse, are refused...sacrificing the next generation to Moloch. Better still...to Ginsberg. To be Beat is not simply to drop...radicalized the quarter the Beats would later make their...already named, the second generation of Beat writers was allocated...
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Generation KU: Individualism and China's Millennial Youth

Journal article by Robert L. Moore; Ethnology, Vol. 44, 2005

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China--Demographic aspects, China--Economic aspects, Community development--Forecasts and trends, Echo boom generation--Ethical aspects, Echo boom generation--Forecasts and trends

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...pervasively used within that generation, and has an extended meaning...entered white society via Beat writers like Jack Kerouac...of two different American generations, and endures through its...parents of the millennial generation. It was deeply hostile...slang term of the millennial generation, ku is likely to be held by successive generations as a pervasively used and...

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Magazine Articles on: beat generation

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Music Masters: (The Hip-Hop Economy Part 3 of a Series) a New Generation of Rap Moguls Is Making the Industry Dance to a Different Beat: Ownership

Magazine article by Shawn E. Rhea; Black Enterprise, Vol. 33, August 2002

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African American executives--Conduct of life, Rap singers--Management, Sound recording executives and producers--Management, Sound recording industry--Management, Sound recordings--Production and direction

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...hop economy part 3 of a series) a new generation of rap moguls is making the industry...joint ventures have furnished this new generation of music entrepreneurs with huge financial...nation. (See sidebar, "The Voice of a Generation.") Sales performance has given this...
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All in the Family: As More GenXers Care for Aging Parents, Creative Planning Can Help Beat High Costs

Magazine article by James A. Anderson; Black Enterprise, Vol. 40, September 2009

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Domestic relations--Health aspects, Domestic relations--Management, Family health--Management, Family relations--Health aspects, Family relations--Management, Family--Health aspects, Family--Management, Generation X--Family, Generation X--Health aspects, Post-baby boom generation--Family, Post-baby boom generation--Health aspects, Recessions--Social aspects, Recessions--United States

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...GenXers Care for Aging Parents, Creative Planning Can Help Beat High Costs. by James A. Anderson ILLUSTRATION OMITTED FIVE...nonprofit television network, found herself in the sandwich generation--those who are furthering their careers and raising their...
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What's Behind the Growing GENERATION GAP?

Magazine article by Marianne M. Jennings; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 128, November 1999

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College students--Social aspects, Generation X--Social aspects, Post-baby boom generation--Social aspects

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...college freshmen are part of Generation X. They came into the world...their homes. The members of Generation X know a lot about Madonna...indicate is that the gap between generations is wider than ever before...dumb?" Without missing a beat, Sarah replied, "Oh...its affections." How is Generation X ever going to find out...
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Money Matters for Generation X

Magazine article by Judith Aidoo; Black Enterprise, Vol. 28, September 1997

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Investments--Evaluation, Mutual funds--Evaluation, Personal finance--Management, Post-baby boom generation--Finance, Young adults--Finance

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Money Matters for Generation X by Judith Aidoo Investing can be...walks recent college graduates, Generation X, as theyve been labeled in the...years, youve amassed $54,736. Generation Xers admit that the first step is...
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How Do You Deal with Generation-x Workers?

Magazine article by Bob Rosner; Workforce, Vol. 78, July 1999

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Generation X, Guidelines, Managerial skills, United States

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How Do You Deal with Generation-x Workers? by Bob Rosner...seem to have trouble with Generation Xers because their attitudes...to Bruce Tulgans Managing Generation X. How to Bring Out the Best...because the boomers will have beat them to it. So theyve come...

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Newspaper Articles on: beat generation

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Lost Novel from the Beat Generation; Plain Downbeat: Jack Kerouac in the Fifties

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 24, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Lost Novel from the Beat Generation; Plain Downbeat: Jack Kerouac...of Naked Lunch, the term "Beat" derived from "wiped out". Hipsters were beat from being on the road too...writers who became icons of the Beat Generation. At the time...morphine-injecting proto Beats and other hipsters. The honky...
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The Beat Goes on; He Drank with Jim Morrison and Was Buddies with Bob Dylan and Dennis Hopper. Lorne Jackson Talks Inspiration with a Poet Who Influenced a Generation in the Sixties

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 1, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Beat Goes on; He Drank with Jim...with a Poet Who Influenced a Generation in the Sixties. Byline: Lorne...Friday - was one of the original beat poets, who shook up the stale...accepted as the awakening of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg...ordinary dreams. Like all the Beats, McClure is majestically capable...
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The Beat Generation; HOME STUDIO HARDWARE Think You're the Next Lemar? Here's the Kit You Need to Make a Hit Single at Home

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 27, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Beat Generation; HOME STUDIO HARDWARE Think Youre the Next Lemar? Heres the Kit You...simulate the worlds best guitar amps, add hundreds of drum rhythms or beat effects and tweak vocals via a microphone pre-amp. Verdict Ditch your...
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The Beat Generation; THE ARTS A Rash of Talented Young Conductors Is Taking Up the Baton at the Head of the World's Orchestras

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 26, 2004

Subjects:

Rattle, Simon

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Beat Generation; THE ARTS A Rash of Talented Young Conductors Is Taking Up the Baton...Daniel Harding THESE are tremulous times for symphony orchestras. A generation of music directors is overripe for retirement and there are no visible...
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PROVE YOU'RE EXTRA SPECIAL; It's Your Chance to Join the New Beat Generation

Newspaper article by Sheila Prophet; The Mirror (London, England), November 13, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...YOURE EXTRA SPECIAL; Its Your Chance to Join the New Beat Generation. by Sheila Prophet Thousands of people have discovered the rewards of giving up spare time to go on the beat as Special Constables. Now the Home Office and the police...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: beat generation

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Beat Generation

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BEAT GENERATION term applied to certain American...anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional...social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression...Burroughs . During the 1960s "beat" ideas and attitudes were...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...seemingly simply written verse. The Lost Generation and After The years immediately after...given them by Gertrude Stein : the lost generation. Out of their disillusion and rejection...initial recognition as part of the beat generation , their individual reputations were...
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Lights Bookshop, which became a center for writers of the beat generation . He has written volumes of colloquial verse such as...novel Her (1960). He encouraged and published many Beat writers, notably Allen Ginsberg...
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Kerouac, Jack

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Mass., studied at Columbia. One of the leaders of the beat generation , a term he is said to have coined, he was the author...Road (1957), widely considered the testament of the beat movement. Frequently employing idiosyncratically lyrical...
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Ginsberg, Allen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ginz burg, 1926 97, American poet, b. Paterson, N.J., grad. Columbia, 1949. An outspoken member of the beat generation , Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack...

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