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THE_JUVIES

                                             March 9, 2004
                               Rearranged:   June 19, 2006

Of late, I've spent a lot of time
thinking about beat history, but
there's an obvious angle that
I still have no good handle on...

  What about the rockers,
  the "juvenile delinquents"?    Podhoretz tried to blame
                                 the juveline delinquents
                                 on the beats, but I have
                                 my doubts that really holds up.

    Bop  beget the beats,
    rock beget the juvies...

  But both phenomena (scenes?)
  were building roughly in
  parallel with each other,
  to the point where it's
  difficult to say if they
  should be thought of as
  different aspects of the
  same thing...

          But "The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club"
          would not seem to have much to do
          with Jack Kerouac and vice-versa...

                                But then, there's
                                that reference in
                                "Howl" to "saintly
                                motorcyclists"...




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