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"He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds - from the blues to Broadway ballads - and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Kerouac's musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work - from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names - Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death Cab for Cutie, and many more - credited Kerouac's impact on their output. In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations of the adventures he brought to the printed page."--Bloomsbury Publishing "He was the king of the Beat Generation and the most dynamic novelist of his time, but Jack Kerouac had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds-from the blues to country, rock`n'roll to Broadway ballads-and when he came to record albums under his own name, he worked with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Yet Kerouac's musical legacy goes beyond the recordings he made himself: both tribute albums to the man and soundtrack recordings accompanying movies that brought his writing to the big screen have also featured potent and original musical content. In Kerouac on Record, we consider the writer's own recorded output, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and the scores that have featured in a string of Hollywood adaptations of his fictional adventures."--Publisher's description Cover page; Halftitle page; Praise; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PERMISSIONS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Kerouac and jazz; Kerouac and rock; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Webography; CHAPTER 1 JACK KEROUACâ#x80;#x99;S JAZZ SCENE; Further reading; Bibliography; CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF BOP1; Note; CHAPTER 3 2ND CHORUS: BLUES: JACK KEROUAC; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; CHAPTER 4 DUET FOR SAXOPHONE AND PEN: LEE KONITZ AND THE DIRECT INFLUENCE OF JAZZ ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF JACK KEROUACâ#x80;#x99;S â#x80;#x98;SPONTANEOUS PROSEâ#x80;#x99; STYLE; Notes; Bibliography; Discography. CHAPTER 10 THE GRATEFUL DEAD: JACK MANIFESTED AS MUSICCHAPTER 11 DRIVER: NEAL CASSADYâ#x80;#x99;S MUSICAL TRIP; Note; CHAPTER 12 JIM MORRISON / ANGEL OF FIRE; Notes; CHAPTER 13 LIGHT IS FASTER THAN SOUND: TEXANS, THE BEATS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO COUNTERCULTURE; CHAPTER 14 HIT THE ROAD, JACK: VAN MORRISON AND ON THE ROAD; Words and music; On the road; Route 66; Down the road; Off the road; Bibliography; Discography; Videography; CHAPTER 15 DETECTING JACK KEROUAC AND JONI MITCHELL: A LITERARY/LEGAL (NOT MUSICOLOGICAL) INVESTIGATION INTO THE SEARCH FOR INFLUENCE. INTERVIEW 1: LEE KONITZCHAPTER 5 JACK KEROUAC GOES VINYL: A SONIC JOURNEY INTO KEROUACâ#x80;#x99;S THREE LPS â#x80;#x93; POETRY FOR THE BEAT GENERATION ; BLUES AND HAIKUS; AND READINGS BY JACK KEROUAC ON THE BEAT GENERATION; Further reading; Discography; CHAPTER 6 ART MUSIC: LISTENING TO KEROUACâ#x80;#x99;S MEXICO CITY BLUES; Notes; Bibliography; INTERVIEW 2: DAVID AMRAM; Note; CHAPTER 7 BEAT REFRAINS: MUSIC, MILIEU AND IDENTITY IN JACK KEROUACâ#x80;#x99;S THE SUBTERRANEANS, THE METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER FILM ADAPTATION; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; CHAPTER 8 BOB DYLANâ#x80;#x99;S BEAT VISIONS (SONIC POETRY). Textual evidence of Mitchellâ#x80;#x99;s anxiety of influence â#x80;#x93; a brief discussionResolution of the case?; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; CHAPTER 16 KEROUAC AND COUNTRY MUSIC; Bibliography; CHAPTER 17 â#x80;#x98;STRAIGHT FROM THE MIND TO THE VOICEâ#x80;#x99;: SPECTRAL PERSISTENCE IN JACK KEROUAC AND TOM WAITS; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; INTERVIEW 4: BARNEY HOSKYNS ON TOM WAITS; CHAPTER 18 FROM BEAT BOP PROSODY TO PUNK ROCK POETRY: PATTI SMITH AND JACK KEROUAC â#x80;#x93; LITERATURE, LINEAGE, LEGACY; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Filmography; POEMS; Introduction; passing tones; Mining the Vernacular. Voice of a generation reduxâ#x80;#x98;Iâ#x80;#x99;m a poet, and I know it. Hope I donâ#x80;#x99;t blow itâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;I came out of the wilderness and just naturally fell in with the Beat scene . . .â#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;Talkinâ#x80;#x99; New Yorkâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;So throw a match on itâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;The great American road tripâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;A hundred-mile-an-hour clipâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;Writ for my own soulâ#x80;#x99;s earâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;Hey, you dig something like cut-ups?â#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;No rhyme, all cut- up, no nothing, except something happening, which is wordsâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;An unmarked graveâ#x80;#x99;; Notes; CHAPTER 9 CARRYING A TORCH FOR â#x80;#x98;TI JEANâ#x80;#x99;; INTERVIEW 3: RICHARD MELTZER; Note.
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