Rock and the Beat Generation

Rock and the Beat Generation

Live review #8: David Amram

Hanging out with a Beat legend

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Jonah Raskin
Oct 28, 2025
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David Amram, Counterculture Museum, San Francisco, October 26th, 2025

By Jonah Raskin

FOR ALL THESE many years, going back to the late 1950s, I have not counted myself a David Amram fan. Bad on me. But I recently became enthusiastic about him and his work and wondered why it has taken me so long to appreciate him. There’s probably nothing to match a live …

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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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