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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.
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.
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.
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.
When readers talk about the “music” of On the Road, they usually mean the distinctive qualities of its prose, all typed out by Jack Kerouac, so literary legend has it, on a three-week writing bender in April of 1951.
12 de mar. de 2024 · On the Road was a genuine publishing sensation. It helped forge an image of jazz-loving, goatee-bearded, beret-wearing beatniks that remains iconic even in 21st century popular culture.
