AMCULT 100 Lecture 8: Lecture 8– The Golden Age of Hip, pt. 2
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Lecture 8: the golden age of hip, pt. Kerouac as charlie parker: alpha, soloist, fuckup, neither happy nor sad (excesses of both) Ginsberg as gillespie: set iconic styles, principles (truth and exclusivity), sustain longer success. Burroughs as monk: deconstruct their art (burroughs" cut up and monk"s cutting up scales) Speed + transience (fluidity): protect ideas from the public, 1 step ahead of commodification. Hip isn"t correctness (right stuff ); rather someone who is out-of-step with the mainstream. Difficulties: create a deeper philosophical underpinning, cohesive meaning, not enough time. Perpetually living in the present : give up past and future, comfort in paradox/ambiguity. Transcendentalists: finding grace in the imperfections of the present. Whitman: opening self to absorb the flaws and contradictions of the society around him . White negro: negro as role model for living in the present: it"s all bop (ginsberg) Context: nuclear angst as metaphor for feeling about life itself: capriciousness.
