Welcome to Venice West: Audio Recordings from the Lawrence Lipton PapersMain MenuIntroductionLawrence Lipton, the Beat Generation in Venice West, and the Lawrence Lipton papers at USC.Lipton and the Beat Generation PoetsLipton’s interviews with or about Beat poets, featuring Stuart Perkoff, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others.Lipton and VeniceThe Venice West Picture Essay, the Gas House, and the history of Venice.Lipton and JazzJazz Canto, Langston Hughes, and Lipton’s recordings of poetry jazz sessions.Audio CollectionBrowse all the Audio in this ExhibitProject Contributors
Stuart Perkoff reading "For a stunky school teacher…"
1media/high-volume.png2019-07-16T20:42:07-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eTape 108: Stuart Z. Perkoff reading "Blues for Billy Holiday" (0:14) [...]8Tape 108: Stuart Z. Perkoff reading "Blues for Billy Holiday" (0:14), "Bird" (4:58), "Invocation" (9:14), "For a stunky school teacher…" (13:57), "The death of Arthur" (31:41) all with music. Julie Meredith singing "Got me a letter from someone who's lonely" (18:14), "He's trying to make me jealous" (18:23)"Waiting for the baby" (21:06), 'Loray my dear heart" (24:56), "Why they a?" (27:51) with guitar, 1959 October 21.plain2020-06-26T14:03:56-07:00Lawrence Lipton Papers, USC Digital Library10/21/59Perkoff, Stuart Z., 1930-1974, speaker; Meredith, Julie, singerBo Doub59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebad