bohemianism

Explores the history of Athens, Georgia, in the 1980s when the town became the center of alternative music, and discusses the bohemian lifestyle of the youth in Athens. Examines the impact of alternative music on American culture and the music industry, and highlights famous artists and bands that arose from the Athens music scene. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Describes the urban hipsters that have emerged in recent years, tracing their origins, descibing their habits, and dispelling common myths.

Features poetry and prose by twenty-seven women of the Beat Generation, including Mimi Albert, Joyce Johnson, Jan Kerouac, Laura Ulewicz, and Anne Waldman.

Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady).

"New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few--but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar seventeen years"--Jacket flap.

Contains over 140 of Allen Ginsberg's poems written between 1947 and 1995 including "Howl," "Kaddish," "White Shroud," "After Lalon," and "The Ballad of the Skeletons.".

A biography of Jack Kerouac, the author who was one of the catalysts for a radical change in American literature, culture, and life-styles.

Discusses a number of ways women can create a wardrobe of Bohemian style clothing.

A narrative poem by Ed Sanders that chronicles the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, discussing his personal relationships, writing career, religious and political beliefs, and other related topics.

The outlandish and often controversial verses of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers, and other malcontents is collected in this primer of the dispossessed.