Woodstock 50: Kerouac vs. Hippies

What Jack Kerouac couldn’t grasp about the generation he inspired

Marshall Bowden
Nov 3 · 7 min read
Photo by Chris Arock on Unsplash

Inspired by insomnia and the myriad stories about the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock Festival I watched a marathon of ‘Music of’ various decades recently on CNN. I came into the cycle at the start of the 1970s, then saw episodes on the ’90s and ‘2000s (not sure what happened to the ’80s…

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Author of Quotable Jazz, Publisher of https://www.newdirectionsinmusic and http://www.eatatangerine. Writes at Medium about writing, marketing, and culture.

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