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Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation is the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's third album and was released in 1960.

History

Unlike Kerouac's two previous albums, this release features no musical accompaniment. The album was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.[1] The album is included in the CD box set The Jack Kerouac Collection.

Track listing

Side One

  1. San Francisco Scene – (The Beat Generation)
  2. San Francisco Blues (Fragments): San Francisco / Street Scene / Money Honey / Westinghouse Elevators / Old Age / Praised Be Man / The Sad Turtle
  3. Lucien Midnight: The Sounds of the Universe in My Window: Excerpt I / Excerpt II
  4. History of Bop

Side Two

  1. The Subterraneans
  2. Visions of Neal (Neal & The Three Stooges): Part I / Part II

Bonus Track on 1990 CD issue

  1. Is There A Beat Generation? (Taken from the "Is There A Beat Generation?" forum, sponsored by Brandeis University; Hunter College Playhouse, November 6, 1958)

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation". Tower Records. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
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