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Beat Generation - Box

Various Artists (Collections) (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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Disc: 1
1. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)
2. The Beat Generation
3. Footloose in Greenwich Village
4. Blues Montage
5. Manhattan Fable
6. Reaching into In
See all 17 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. The Hip Gahn
2. Twisted
3. Yip Roc Heresy
4. Ha!
5. Pull My Daisy
6. October in the Railroad Earth
See all 15 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Jack and Neal / California, Here I Come - Tom Waits
2. Readings from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" - Jack Kerouac With Steve Allen
3. Interview With Jack Kerouac - Ben Hacht
4. Kerouazy - Don Morrow
5. Cool - Del Close And John Brent
6. But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown Jr.
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This three-disc set is a gold mine for anyone with even a passing interest in the music, the poetry, and the people of the beat era. The stars--Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs--are here, of course. But so are the players (Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan), the architects (Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth), the cutups (Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley), the pretenders (Rod McKuen, Edd Byrnes), the critics (Carl Sandburg, Howard K. Smith), and the heirs (Tom Waits). What a great selection of vibrant poetry, hip music, and sonic ephemera. The well-annotated booklet offers classic photos, historical context, cool quotes, and, perhaps most important, an extensive "Beat Bookshelf" that will lead to further exploration. Dig this crazy box, man! --Michael Ruby

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5.0 out of 5 stars Root, Vout and Dig It ! ! ! Jan 7 2001
By Eddie Landsberg
Format:Audio CD
What I love about the Beat Generation Box Set is that in addition to serving as a great social portrait of the era, as well as hipster culture, throughout it maintains a sense of humor and focuses on its strange relationship and rivalry with American pop culture. Beyond mere literary readings, a colorful cast of charactors make the scene... from beboppers to hipsters, bongo beating philosophers to comedians and pop icons arise. One track might be Annie Ross's bebopistic tribute to Schizophrenia "Twisted", the next a recitation by Lord Buckley or Ken Nordine - in other tracks, square singers try to cash in on bebop and hipster culture... reporters go out on the streets of Greenwich village in search of America's lost youth, while others show beat generation icons in action from Dizzy Gillespie to Slim Galliard and Ray Brown Jr. - - Cuts from the rare, "How to Speak Hip" and even Lenny Bruce's Psychopathia Sexualis (I'm in Love With a Horse That Comes from Dallas) appear.

While by no means comprehensive, the three CDs along with the illustrated booklet are not only educational but incredibly entertaining.

If you enjoy this album, be sure to check out a reissue of Ken Nordine's Colors, as well as stuff by Harry The Hipster Gibson, Slim Galliard and Leon Watson, as well as the movie, "Sweet Love Bitter" (based on the life of Charlie Parker.)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, Loved it, Love it! July 25 2000
By "vladgogo"
Format:Audio CD
Great Jazz, poetry, and spoken word. A diverse group of artists are included in this boxed set. It is a window to another time that suspiciously looks similar to our own. I cherish this collection. I don't know how I survived without it. Highly recommend!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The apocolyptic soul of the beats!!! Jun 25 1999
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
The breath and life of the beat generation is expressed in total array in this box set. The Bird is god and Kerouac is an angel to deliver the soul of truth onto a new generation of tripped out, wild, outcasts which have been labeled "misfits" by the societal concept. Live on true beats.
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