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This is great stuff for any music aficionado, especially of folk, social protest, and roots music. I am going to be "stealing" entries off of this site periodically but you should be checking it out yourselves. Kudos, Bob Feldman.
How Beat Generation Survived Economically
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Category: Writing and Poetry
In his 2005 book, "Charles Bukowski," Barry Miles indicated how some members of The Beat Generation apparently managed to survive economically within a culturally straight, classist, Corporate-oriented economic system:
"...Until the late 60s, [Allen] Ginsberg refused on principle to accept money for a reading in case it commercialized his work. He relented only late in the decade in order to get income for his poetry foundation, which basically kept a set of junkies and junkie-poets alive...
"...By 1963 [William] Burroughs was earning enough to live on and had stopped his $200-a-month family allowance; Ginsberg had been able to scrape by on his poetry since 1958; [Gregory] Corso had never worked, preferring to demand money from admiers--usually female--or from Ginsberg; [Jack] Kerouac had been self-sufficient since the publication of "On The Road" in 1957 and, as he lived with his mother, he had low overheads; Jack Micheline, Ray Bremser, Bob Kaufman and the other hard-core Beats all scraped by without jobs; others like John Clellon Holmes, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure and Jack Hirshman survived on a combination of teaching, translation work, readings and reviewing..."
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/bobafeldman68music/blog?page=7#ixzz0zMMwzuvq
This is great stuff for any music aficionado, especially of folk, social protest, and roots music. I am going to be "stealing" entries off of this site periodically but you should be checking it out yourselves. Kudos, Bob Feldman.
How Beat Generation Survived Economically
Current mood: busy
Category: Writing and Poetry
In his 2005 book, "Charles Bukowski," Barry Miles indicated how some members of The Beat Generation apparently managed to survive economically within a culturally straight, classist, Corporate-oriented economic system:
"...Until the late 60s, [Allen] Ginsberg refused on principle to accept money for a reading in case it commercialized his work. He relented only late in the decade in order to get income for his poetry foundation, which basically kept a set of junkies and junkie-poets alive...
"...By 1963 [William] Burroughs was earning enough to live on and had stopped his $200-a-month family allowance; Ginsberg had been able to scrape by on his poetry since 1958; [Gregory] Corso had never worked, preferring to demand money from admiers--usually female--or from Ginsberg; [Jack] Kerouac had been self-sufficient since the publication of "On The Road" in 1957 and, as he lived with his mother, he had low overheads; Jack Micheline, Ray Bremser, Bob Kaufman and the other hard-core Beats all scraped by without jobs; others like John Clellon Holmes, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure and Jack Hirshman survived on a combination of teaching, translation work, readings and reviewing..."
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/bobafeldman68music/blog?page=7#ixzz0zMMwzuvq
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