060 Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Simms_American Haikus
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Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Simms - American Haikus
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Beatniks were artists and writers who started a literature-based sociocultural movement in 1950s America. This Tumblr is all about them, their work, their inspirations, and those they inspired. I also include the evolution of faux beat culture into a 1950s pop trend as well as how the beatniks' influence continues today. I apologize for any reposts; it's difficult to remember what I have and have not shared.
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060 Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Simms_American Haikus
Leap Frog
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Leap Frog - Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie (Bird and Diz, 1950)
Conversation about and clips from Diego Luna and Jaime Lopez’s Spanish performance(s) of “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg. It was also performed at the 2012 Festival Internacional de Teatro Puebla Héctor Azar on 24 November 2012.
(Source: ginsbergblog.blogspot.com)
Allen Ginsberg reading the introduction of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
(Source: ginsbergblog.blogspot.com)
Green Valentine Blues
Allen Ginsberg
“Green Valentine Blues” by Allen Ginsberg [1954]
Ginsberg composed “Green Valentine Blues in Mexico in 1954 (around Valentine’s Day?) and recorded it at . From The Allen Ginsberg Project (who posted about this song this morning):
Allen: “In Mexico, I’d lived on a cacao plantation for three months in Chiapas rain forest, solitary wondering where I’d ever find love, amid insect-eating blossoms and giant palms, caoba (mahogany) trees and one plant with a huge heart-shaped leaf. “Green Valentine” echoes some old Tin Pan Alley, music hall barbershop, almost vaudeville number, sentimental like “My Yiddishe Mama”, the kind of thing you sing to yourself in bed..”An early recording (chez Cassady’s) can be found on Holy Soul, Jelly Roll [Music. History.’s source for the music] and also on this 2010 curiosity, The Beat Generation Music and Poetry.Posted in honor of my Valentine, who’s favorite color is green.
The Moon Her Majesty
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac “The Moon Her Majesty”
Joanne Kyger reading (mp3)
Bolinas.
“See You Later, Allen Ginsberg,” Bob Dylan
Allen Ginsberg reads William Carlos Williams.
