"It's the beat to keep."

Courtesy Austin Public Library Blog  Fri, 02/15/2008 - 10:50am

The Harry Ransom Center at UT recently opened its exhibition of "On the Road with the Beats ," which celebrates the influential work of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S.

Burroughs. The varied meanings of the term beat are evident in Kerouac's "San Francisco Scene," which appears on the spoken word CD The Beat Generation and in Kerouac: A Biography (pg. 272):
He's wailing beer caps of bottles and...


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