Rock and the Beat Generation

Rock and the Beat Generation

Book review #74: RS and the Rise of Hip Capitalism

One famed mag, now a second angle

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Jonah Raskin
Sep 20, 2026
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Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America by Charles L. Ponce de Leon (University of North Carolina Press, 2026)

By Jonah Raskin, Chief Book Reviewer

DO STUDENTS and scholars of pop culture – and aficionados of rock and the Beats, for that matter – really need two new books about an American magazine th…

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I was a teenage Beatnik in the 1950s. More than half a century later I am still a beatnik in spirit.
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