Description

Digipak cd with a fourteen page bibliography / discography of these Beat (and Beat related) artists affixed to the left inside of the fold out sleeve.

Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg formed the trinity of the Beat Generation in postwar America in the 1950s. They wanted to strike fear and terror into every God-fearing conservative white Anglo-American Protestant with their revolutionary ideas. However, without the Beats, a rapidly changing youth culture that ranged from rock’n’roll to postmodernists in art, the so-called Beatniks would have been deprived of the basis for their underground activities. Being constantly on the move, which manifested itself in a maximum of inner and outer movement, was the magic word for these young Americans, who were accompanied in their search for an existence defined by marijuana, jazz, sex and freedom. Their cry for life, their hymns to life, are documented in Diggin’ The New Breed. Keith Rodway researched and wrote down the history of the Beat Generation, Robin Clifford presents them in four chapters, and numerous contemporary witnesses can be heard in their original voices. Alongside Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, friends, companions and subsequent artists recall the ‘glory’ days – including Gary Snyder, Lucien Carr, Ed Sanders, Michael McLure, Philip Glass, Bob Rosenthal, Ann Chambers and Patti Smith – who changed their lives and their art while experimenting with pop culture. Jack Kerouac was the restless wanderer in search of the meaning of life, which he tried to find along the way. William Seward Burroughs was the most successful storyteller of the trio and probably the world’s most elegant heroin addict. Allen Ginsberg was the angelic hipster who, inspired by the Power Of Madness and his love for Neal Cassady, wanted to push the door to freedom wide open. Much of this is now only history, some lives on through her disciples. Their revolutionary attitude was always exciting, and the CD is no less so. However, you should be prepared for possible sudden changes in your own life.

Track list:
1. Hepcats
2. The Cat With The Irrational Brick
3. The Doctor Of Madness Calls Out The Toads
4. Angel Headed Hipster: The Inspirational Power Of Madness Versus The Clean Life