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Simon Warner
Simon Warner is visiting research fellow in popular music studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research over more than two decades has considered the relationship between the US Beat Generation writers and popular music of various forms. The interaction between this literary community and rock, jazz and other genres has been investigated in a number of published works including Text and Drugs and Rock‘n’Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture (2013) and Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack (2018), co-edited with Jim Sampas. Warner has also produced a series of live celebrations commemorating Beat anniversaries with music: Howl for Now (2005), Still Howling (2015), Kerouac on Screen (2019) and Kerouac Lives! (2022). Additionally, he is founding editor of the website Rock and the Beat Generation (
Contact: School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.