Beat generation : glory days in Greenwich Village

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From clothing to literature, the Beat Generation has had an enormous impact on American culture. This work examines this most influential American social movement.

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This collection of photographs is a redoing of McDarrah's Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album (1985), which included a series of essays by various hands on the Beat scene, accompanied by many of McDarrah's photos, poorly reproduced and offered in a small format. The present volume rectifies these problems, eliminates the essays, and showcases a wide range of oversized images that demonstrate McDarrah's talent. The focus is Kerouac, Ginsberg, Jones, Corso, and a host of the famous and not-so-famous who made Greenwich Village a mecca for the new bohemia in the 1950s and early 1960s. McDarrah was the staff photographer for The Village Voice, then something of an underground newspaper, and he took his camera to coffee-house poetry readings, parties, taverns, beatnik pads, Washington Square Park, and city streets. Very few of these pictures are posed; instead, McDarrah captures the Beats in impromptu moments as they interact with the city and each other. This impressive and stimulating book should interest any student of American literature and culture. M. H. Begnal; Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus

Preface	p. VI
Acknowledgments	p. XI
Anatomy of a Beatnik	p. 1
The Artist's Studio	p. 9
Black Mountain School	p. 17
The Cedar Street Tavern	p. 25
The Club	p. 33
Coffee Houses	p. 45
Allen Ginsberg: Beat-At-Large	p. 63
Jazz and the Beats	p. 81
Ted Joans's Birthday Party	p. 91
Kerouac Writes a Poem	p. 103
Literary Gatherings and Hangouts	p. 119
Literary Publications	p. 135
The Living Theatre	p. 153
Frank O'Hara and the New York School	p. 165
Poetry Readings	p. 181
Portraits on the Beat Scene	p. 195
Rent-a-Beatnik	p. 211
The San Francisco School	p. 221
Street and Park Scenes	p. 239
The Wilentzes and the 8th Street Bookshop	p. 259
Last Stop: Lowell	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 271
Biographical Sketches	p. 274
Index	p. 283

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