Blows Like a Horn - Beat Writing, Jazz, Style and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture - Hardback - 2004

Tracing the creative counterculture movement of the Bay Area, Whaley explores the role of jazz in shaping the very structures of Beat art and social life. It was jazz, argues the author, with its intelligent spontaneity, that gave Beat poetry its velocity and charisma.
Year of publication: 2004
Pagination: 288 pages, 9 halftones
Format: Hardback