Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

Team 1984 presents... Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Performed live by Ginsberg. 1959 21:48 80kbps Not sure of the exact date/location of the recording (if you know, let me know) but this is a wicked reading of Ginsberg's most reknowned work. Sorry about the bit rate, but since it's spoken word vs music the low bit rate shouldn't detract too much.. ---------------------------------- ABOUT: Spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school, Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997) defied simple classification. Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem Howl (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. Ginsberg's principal work, "Howl", is well-known for its opening line: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...." "Howl" was considered scandalous at the time of its publication, because of the rawness of its language, which is frequently explicit. Shortly after its 1956 publication by San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, it was banned for obscenity. The ban became a cause célèbre among defenders of the First Amendment, and was later lifted after Judge Clayton W. Horn declared the poem to possess redeeming social importance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsber g http://www.allenginsberg.org/ Ripped by Big Brother All CDs ripped at 192k unless noted First posted on www.thepiratebay.se Team 1984 Your best source for: Rare/Out of Print music Audio/Video Bootlegs Old/Out of Print Software Counter-culture books/text Off the beaten path movies Weird Porn Anything else that we dig.. Team 1984 doesn't do mainstream doesn't follow the herd are just some stoned hippies with attitude Want to be a member of Team 1984? Simple, Just include this NFO and Don't up anything lame/mainstream Hails to: freakyflicks, Fat Fuck Frank, sickboy88 splattergod, ChrisGoes, Bob Dylan Fuck Off to: RIAA, MPAA, Viacom, Metallica

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paod82 (2008-08-30)

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