Beats and Friends: a Check-List of Audio-Visual Material in the British Library
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BEATS AND FRIENDS: A CHECK-LIST OF AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIAL IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/literature/literaturesound.html CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 3 WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS ..................................................................................... 5 ALLEN GINSBERG ................................................................................................ 16 JACK KEROUAC................................................................................................... 26 THE EAST COAST SCENE..................................................................................... 29 John Ashbery................................................................................................ 29 Amiri Baraka................................................................................................. 30 Ted Berrigan................................................................................................. 32 Kenward Elmslie ........................................................................................... 33 The Fugs....................................................................................................... 33 John Giorno.................................................................................................. 35 Ted Joans ..................................................................................................... 35 Leroi Jones.................................................................................................... 36 Robert Kelly.................................................................................................. 36 Kenneth Koch............................................................................................... 36 Tuli Kupferberg............................................................................................. 36 Seymour Krim............................................................................................... 37 The Living Theatre........................................................................................ 37 Gerard Malanga ........................................................................................... 38 Jonas Mekas................................................................................................. 39 Larry Rivers................................................................................................... 39 Gilbert Sorrentino ......................................................................................... 40 THE WEST COAST SCENE.................................................................................... 41 Robin Blaser.................................................................................................. 41 Richard Brautigan ......................................................................................... 41 Brother Antoninus ........................................................................................ 41 Lawrence Ferlinghetti ................................................................................... 41 Michael McClure .......................................................................................... 44 David Meltzer............................................................................................... 44 Kenneth Rexroth .......................................................................................... 45 Gary Snyder.................................................................................................. 45 BLACK MOUNTAIN ............................................................................................. 47 Robert Creeley.............................................................................................. 47 Fielding Dawson........................................................................................... 49 Ed Dorn........................................................................................................ 49 Robert Duncan ............................................................................................. 49 Larry Eigner .................................................................................................. 50 Charles Olson............................................................................................... 50 Beats and friends Page 1 of 104 Literature: audio and video recordings John Wieners................................................................................................ 51 Jonathan Williams......................................................................................... 51 OTHER BEATS...................................................................................................... 52 Neal Cassady................................................................................................ 52 Gregory Corso.............................................................................................. 52 Brion Gysin................................................................................................... 53 Herbert Huncke............................................................................................ 57 Jack Micheline .............................................................................................. 57 Peter Orlovsky.............................................................................................. 57 Kenneth Patchen .......................................................................................... 57 Alexander Trocchi......................................................................................... 58 WOMEN .............................................................................................................. 59 Carolyn Cassady........................................................................................... 59 Diane di Prima.............................................................................................. 59 Barbara Guest............................................................................................... 59 Fran Landesman ........................................................................................... 60 Denise Levertov............................................................................................ 61 Josephine Miles ............................................................................................ 62 Anne Waldman ............................................................................................ 62 INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS ..................................................................... 64 Paul Bowles .................................................................................................. 64 Stan Brakhage .............................................................................................. 65 Lenny Bruce.................................................................................................. 65 Charles Bukowski.......................................................................................... 69 Ken Kesey..................................................................................................... 74 Timothy Leary .............................................................................................. 76 Norman Mailer ............................................................................................. 79 Kenneth Patchen .......................................................................................... 80 Hubert Selby, Jr ............................................................................................ 81 Alan Watts ................................................................................................... 81 Wavy Gravy ................................................................................................. 82 William Carlos Williams ................................................................................ 83 ANTHOLOGIES AND BEATS IN GENERAL ........................................................... 89 GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS .............................................................................. 100 Beats and friends Page 2 of 104 Literature: audio and video recordings INTRODUCTION A few notes on the criteria underlying this check-list might be helpful. Recordings were selected for inclusion on the basis that they feature Beat (or Beat- connected) writers, performing their own or others' works, in interview, or as the subject of documentary audio or video. Readings - and songs and other tributes to these artists - by artists who would not themselves warrant inclusion have been ignored. Thus Charles Laughton's reading from The Dharma Bums, for example, has been passed over here. BBC Sound Archive material has been included only where also held in the British Library Sound Archive. That said, this discography aims to be comprehensive rather than purist. Charles Bukowski, for example, is by no stretch of the imagination one of the Beats, nor would he likely have appreciated being grouped with them. However, he was published by City Lights, wrote about Neal Cassady, and, most significantly perhaps, was for most of his life an underground writer who undoubtedly appealed to readers of Kerouac, Burroughs et al. In general, selection is based on the accompanying bibliography by James D. Egles (see: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/files/bl-beats-bibliography-printed-collections.pdf) and includes any audio or