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5 de jul. de 2017 · Check out this epic 25-track playlist of jazz music from Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic On The Road, featuring tracks from Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and other jazz greats. However, jazz’s influence on the novel extends past its stylistic qualities.
2 de ene. de 2024 · Tue 2 January 2024 15:15, UK. “I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday.”. – Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969) The publication of Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel, On The Road, was a notable turning point as pop culture unfurled.
15 de nov. de 2021 · Monday, November 15, 2021. Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' did for literature what Charlie Parker and John Coltrane did for jazz, whipping it up into brave new shapes and forms that challenged the norm and set a generation in motion, writes Keith Shadwick.
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
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The novel’s stream-of-consciousness style and use of jazz-inspired language also reflect the Beat Generation’s interest in spontaneity and improvisation. “On the Road” has had a lasting impact on American literature and continues to inspire readers today. The Beat Generation and Society
Set in the 1940s of the last century, in the full of the musical outpouring of jazz, Kerouac’s novel lets itself be moved along by the force and emotion of the bands of the time. The Los Angeles music scene provides a “background noise” for some sections.
