Howls, Raps, And Roars [4 CD]

Howls, Raps, And Roars [4 CD]

The subtitle to this set is "Recordings from the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance," and indeed listening to this four-CD set is like having a front-row seat at a reading at Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore during the '50s, as these recordings were taken from Bay Area-based Fantasy Records' voluminous spoken-word archives! Touchstones of the beat poetry movement like Allen Ginsberg's Howl , Kenneth Rexroth's Thou Shall Not Kill and Ferlinghetti's Moscow in the Wilderness, Sequoia in the Snow are here, as well as appearances by such major figures as Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Lew Welch and Gregory Corso, But perhaps the highlight of the set is the 70-minute fourth disc, which features unreleased recordings from most of the scene's luminaries. A lavish, 36-page booklet accompanies.
Country USA
Brand UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
Manufacturer Fantasy
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 11100
ReleaseDate 1993-06-02
UnitCount 4
Format Box set
UPCs 025218441025
EANs 0025218441025