Moody's Skidrow Beanery

Kansas underground from beat to hip

Edición de la obra Moody's Skidrow Beanery

MOODY’S SKIDROW BEANERY is a book-length collection of studies of Kansas 1960s counterculture that tells the story of the young people who fought the first battles. The book details folk music, rock, the underground press, head shops, hippie eateries, record stores, and includes in-depth looks at Kansas innovators Charles Plymell and Bob Branaman. Lawrence’s underground newspapers the *Kansas Free Press* and *Reconstruction Press* are looked at in detail, as well as a latter day encounter with Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Plymell at the K. U. Burroughs Symposium in 1996.