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15 de nov. de 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.
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.
2 de ene. de 2024 · From Billie Holiday to Charlie Parker and Peggy Lee, this is the music featured in Jack Kerouac's seminal bebop beat novel 'On The Road' from 1957.
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.
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.
20 de ago. de 2021 · "On the Road" tells the story of Sal Paradise, an analog for Kerouac himself, alongside his friend and mentor Dean Moriarty (based on the real-life figure Neal Cassady). Written in a fresh and innovative stream-of-consciousness style that reflected the new sounds of jazz that soundtrack the book, "On the Road" represented a break ...
On the Road, Regina Weinreich, who along with Tim Hunt examines the jazz influence on the novel in some detail, argues that Kerouac's "notion of improvisation informs the language of [his] writing at an exact technical level. Though Kerouac had neither the knowledge of a musician nor the critical vocabulary of a person learned in the sub-
