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Soul music reached its high point during the 1960s and early 1970s. It declined during the 1980s, but reemerged in the late 1990s, which has led to a soul Renaissance.

Author Joyce Johnson's memoir about life with Jack Kerouac and beyond.

Amiri Baraka lost his New Jersey poet laureateship when the Anti-Defamation League denounced Baraka's anti-Semitism in "Somebody Blew Up America."

The music of Miles Davis encapsulated the many sides of his prodigious talent with that familiar provocative "Me-ness" that always identified his work instantly.

While the women of the Beat movement did not receive the same attention of the mass media as the men, they were equally important in defining the generation.