The Beat Movement Michele L. Kuhar Brunswick High School Mkuhar@bcsoh.org LEECA Beat Movement Grades 11-12 Language Arts/ Social Studies Beat Generation Poets, 20th Century Literature Students will research the various poets/personalities of the Beat Movement (1950-1970) Dewey Numbers- 92, 810.9, 811.54, 813.54 Subject Headings- Beat Generation, 20th Century Literature, American Poetry Books Bartlett, Jeffrey, 1950-. One vast page: essays on the beat writers, their books, and my life, 1950-1980.Berkeley, CA : Provine Press, c1991. Charters, Ann. Beat down to your soul: what was the Beat generation? New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Campbell, James, 1951-. This is the Beat Generation. New York, San Francisco, Paris, London : Secker & Warburg, 1999. Cook, Bruce, 1932-. The beat generation. New York : Quill, c1994. Foster, Edward Halsey. Understanding the Beats. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1992. Girls who wore black: women writing the beat generation. edited by Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2002. Kerouac and friends:a beat generation album.[compiled by] Fred W. McDarrah and Timothy S. McDarrah. New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2002. The Rolling Stone book of the Beats:the Beat Generation and American culture. edited by Holly George-Warren. New York: Hyperion, c1999. Tytell, John. Paradise outlaws:remembering the beats. Photographs by Mellon. New York: W. Morrow, c1999. Watson, Steven. The birth of the beat generation: visionaries, rebels, and hipsters, 1944-1960. With a new afterword by Robert Creeley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Waldman, Ann. The Beat Book. Boston: Shambhala Publ, 1995. Databases Gale Student Resource Center- search "Beat Movement" Literature Online- Choose 20th Century American Poetry. Type in beat generation or specific poets. LitFinder (World's Best Poetry) Study Guide: 20th Century- The Beat Movement Exploring: Post-World War II American Poetry Specific Poets Oxford Reference Online- Search "Beat Generation." Periodials Recapturing the skipped beats. By: Johnson, Ronna C.; Damon, Maria. Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/1/99, Vol. 46 Issue 6, pB4, 3p, 1 chart, 1c, 3bw; (AN 2363221) A gospel of emancipation. By: Kimball, Roger. New Criterion, Oct97, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p4, 8p; (AN 9710215001) The beats go on. By: Kauffman, Bill. American Enterprise, Nov/Dec97, Vol. 8 Issue 6, p77, 1p, 1bw; (AN 9711130268) Search for more articles.   OCLC First Search: Periodical & Journal Articles Peter Gilmour: Blessed are the beatniks. U.S. Catholic 64 no3 7 Mr '99 William Lawlor: A Compact Guide to Sources for Teaching the Beats. College Literature 27 no1 232-55 Wint 2000 Websites The American Museum of Beat Art (AMBA) bThe American Museum of Beat Art in Pasadena, California celebrates the Beatniks, whose "world of bohemian non-conformity and cultural non-compliance" paved the way for the sixties and subsequent alternative cultural movements. The Web site highlights items from the museum's collection of works and artifacts of Beat Generation artists, as well as earlier twentieth century artists who influenced Beat writers, poets, and visual artists. Featured are images, biographies, and archival written matter, as well as links to other resources on Beat culture on the World Wide Web.b City Lights Booksellers and Publishers bOfficial site of the landmark San Francisco bookseller and publisher, founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. In addition to a brief history and a complete catalog of City Lights titles in print, you can find Ferlinghetti's Poetry as News columns from the San Francisco Chronicle and information on the San Francisco streets renamed to honor famous authors and artists who lived and worked in the city.b The Beat Page The Beat Page is dedicated to the movement that began in the early 1950s with a small and tightly connected group of young writers who demonstrated a care-free, often reckless and unquestionably fresh approach to literature as well as a demonstrative social stance toward what was sometimes referred to as "The Establishment". Videos On the road with Jack Kerouac: king of the beats. Written by John Tyfel, John Antonelli and Frank Cevarich. Thousand Oaks, CA: Goldhil Video, c2001.(73 min.) The Beat generation: an American dream. Renaissance Motion Pictures, Inc.; New York, NY: Fox Lorber Home Video: WinStar Home Entertainment, 1998.(88 min.) The Source. Hiro Yamagata presents a WinStar Cinema release; a film by Chuck Workman.[New York, NY]: WinStar TV & Video, 2000.(89 min.)