Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Acknowledgements Credits Preface Rock and rock'n'roll: A short note to the reader Introduction i) How the Beats met rock: Some history and some context ii) Charting the Beats: Background and impact iii) Beat and rock: A survey of association iv) The Beats' own recordings: A selective discography Chapter 1 - Sifting the shifting sands: Allen Ginsberg, 'Howl' and the American landscape in the 1950s Interlude A - Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A survivor surveys Interview 1 - David Amram, jazz musician and Beat composer, including the Pull My Daisy soundtrack Chapter 2 - Chains of flashing memories: Bob Dylan and the Beats, 1959-1975 Interview 2 - Michael McClure, poet and author of The Beard Chapter 3 - Muse, moll, maid, mistress? Beat women and their rock'n'roll legacy Chapter 4 - Raising the consciousness: Re-visiting Allen Ginsberg's 1965 trip to Liverpool Q&A 1 - Michael Horovitz, poet, publisher and British Beat Interview 3 - Larry Keenan, photographer of 'The Last Gathering of the Beats' in San Francisco in 1965 Obituary 1 - Peter Orlovsky, 'Member of the Beat Generation, poet and lover of Allen Ginsberg' Interlude B - All Neal: Cassady celebrated in downtown Denver Q&A 2 - Mark Bliesener, rock band manager and a founder of Neal Cassady's memorial day in Denver Chapter 5 - The British Beat: Rock, Literature and the British Counterculture in the 1960s Interview 4 - Pete Brown, British poet and rock lyricist for Cream Q&A 3 - Jonah Raskin, Ginsberg biographer and cultural historian Chapter 6 - The Sound of the Summer of Love? The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper, the hippies and Haight-Ashbury Q&A 4 - Levi Asher, founder of acclaimed Beat website Literary Kicks Interview 5 - Ronald Nameth, Beat film-maker and director of the film of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable Chapter 7 - The Meltzer chronicles: Poet, novelist, musician and historian of Beat America Review 1 - Book: David Meltzer, Beat Thing Interview 6 -

Simon Warner is a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who teaches Popular Music Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. He has, over a number of years, written live reviews and counterculture obituaries for The Guardian and The Independent, and has a particular interest in the relationship between the Beat Generation writers--Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others--and rock culture. His previous books include Rockspeak: The Language of Rock and Pop (1996) and Howl for Now: A Celebration of Allen Ginsberg's epic protest poem (2005).

[U]ndoubtedly, the most comprehensive survey of "British Beat" (interviews with Michael Horovitz, Pete Brown,Kevin Ring..), as well as informative Q & A's with American Beat scholars, Levi Asher and Jonah Raskin, and a whole lot more. The Allen Ginsberg Project The lingering buzz of what we do get is more valuable: A deeper appreciation, sans Baby Boomer/Sixties cliches, of a period of anything-goes, no-rules creativity, and the feeling that, damn, it must have been a lot of fun to be there. -- Jim Derogatis WEBZ.org - PopNStuff Impressive and well researched Yorkshire Post [One of] two excellent new books...I'm particularly proud to be in this book now that I see what a handsome volume it is. -- Levi Asher Literary Kicks Simon Warner's new book is an intriguing and absorbing read that weaves together the Beat poets and novelists of the 1940s and '50s and their direct influence on rock musicians in the 1960s and onwards... A wide-ranging, ambitious 'bigger picture' book that's well worth a read for fans of these seminal and creative people. Vive le Rock Interesting book... -- Pat Gilbert Mojo Magazine Warner's academic and exhaustive examination provides a fascinating analysis on the pivotal confluence of two artistic movements. This book will prove valuable to students and to those deeply interested in music, literature, and Anglo-American cultural history of the mid- to late 20th century. -- James Collins Library Journal 20130627 Fascinating and impeccably researched... Warner's massive contribution to the literary and musical legacy of the Beat generation should be, along with Ann Charters's The Portable Beat Reader, the standard reference on the subject. -- Edwin Pouncey The Wire 20130801 Impressively comprehensive and frequently fascinating... Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll succeeds because its eclecticism and its boldness in bringing genres together - it includes not only scholarly essays, but also interviews, reviews and obituaries - is consistent with