? Beat movement end
MandyB
I was wondering when people would say the Beat movement ended?
I realize this is probably not that simple a question, but any related
response would be appreciated.
Mark Di Marzio
writers coming thru who want to write about sense impressions and pushing
barriers and exploring terrain and movement and spontaneous prose etc. In
the sense of 'the' specific' beat movement' per se, i think it has died
along with Jack kerouac and Neal cassady and allen ginsberg and the other
co- creators when they physically died.. But just like elvis is now dead and
the beatles broke up and lennon died ;Music issuing forth and inspired
by/from that impetus is still going--This news group and the mere mention of
jack kerouac's name perpetuats the movement -it's a way of keeping it alive.
A way of remembering andcelebrating the 'vibe'that those guys lived and died
to present-their creative lives work.! When that goes I guess it will be
dead. Anyway thats what i reckon for what it's worth.
cheers... Mark Di Marzio.Australia.19/may/99.
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Loren Schooley
When Jerry died, that was the end of the main era.
Who is there now? No-one really. (The hoax writers
are doing ok on the net, tho.)
Right now, the only beat writing has been Charlton Heston's Harvard speech.
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Christopher Jamison
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>
> I was wondering when people would say the Beat movement ended?
> I realize this is probably not that simple a question, but any related
> response would be appreciated.
The Beat movement ended the night Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
arrived in New York City and no one but Kesey paid attention to Kerouac.
Ginsberg and Burroughs and all the rest continued, but it was no longer
Beat. They were beats but there weren't any more beats. Now there were
hippies. Paul Perry wrote a terriffic book of oral history called _On the
Bus_ about Kesey and the Pranksters that explains this night in detail.
Basically, they hooked up with Ginsberg, Kesey wanted to meet Kerouac.
Kerouac was by that time doing his fifth of Johnny Walker a day plus pills
routine. When Kerouac entered, he noticed that the Pranksters had an
American flag draped haphazardly over the couch. Kerouac quietly and sadly
folded it properly and sat with it in his lap for the rest of the night.
Kesey was pretty much the only one who talked to him. That is the night
the Beat Generation ended.
Sarah
PaulMB715
get taken seriously, suddenly became "the beatniks," which nobody took
seriously. Snyder went to Japan, Ginsberg started traveling everywhere,
Cassady worked on the railroad, and Jack went home to Memere to drink.
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twoshamshoes
>I was wondering when people would say the Beat movement ended?
>I realize this is probably not that simple a question, but any related
>response would be appreciated.
>
it ended
when charlie parker died
and rock and roll took over
i wanna hold your hand
and the madness of teeny boppers
sent us all to hell
DChodos158
writes:
>it ended
>when charlie parker died
>and rock and roll took over
>i wanna hold your hand
>and the madness of teeny boppers
>sent us all to hell
>
But the beginning of something wonderful; Dylan. I can't remember where I
read it, was it Sub. Kerouac (I know that it's not popular among many of you),
but Ellis Amburn <sp> suggests had Kerouac been in his right mind in those last
years he would merged rock with great writing, instead of the Teeny Bopper
shit.
JOwens0464
days, what with the release of CD box sets of Burroughs & Ginsberg, Kerouac,
etc., documentaries, ppbk. reissues of Kerouac's novels via Penguin Books -
It will never end.
Long live the Beat Generation,
John Owens
JOwen...@aol.com