artwork Geoff Gans
compilation producer, liner notes [foreword] James Austin
liner notes Barry Alfonso
liner notes Bob Dylan
liner notes Gordon Skene
liner notes Michael Weldon
liner notes Stephen Ronan
remastered by Bob Fisher
Phonographic Copyright (p) Rhino Records Inc.
Copyright (c) Rhino Records Inc.
Includes a 56-page booklet filled with texts, photographs, a selected bibliography and a selected filmography on Beat.

1-01 From Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation, Verve, recorded 05/13/1959, released 01/1962.
1-02 Brunswick single, released 08/1959.
1-03 Excerpt from Radio WYNC news feature, broadcast 05/1960.
1-04 From Weary blues, MGM, recorded 03/17/1958.
1-05 Bruce single, released 12/1954.
1-06 From Word Jazz Vol. II, Dot, released 1960.
1-07 Prestige single, recorded 12/1953, released 05/1954.
1-08 Capitol single, released 05/1962.
1-09 From The Heart of Saturday Night, Asylum, released 08/1974.
1-10 From Call me Burroughs, ESP, released 1966.
1-11 From The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentee with Chet Baker, Mosaic, recorded 01/1953, released 1983.
1-12 From Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales, Roulette, released 01/1961.
1-13 RCA Victor single, recorded 08/22/47, released 10/1947.
1-14 From How to Speak Hip, Mercury, released 1961.
1-15 MGM single, released 06/1958.
1-16 From The Clown, Atlantic, recorded 02/13/1957.
1-17 From Kenneth Patchen, Cadence, released 03/1958.

2-01 From Euphoria, Volume II, Vaya, recorded 1951, released 1956.
2-02 From The Hottest Group in Jazz, Columbia, recorded 08/06/1959, released 12/1959.
2-03 Mercury single, recorded 08/1951, released 12/1951.
2-04 RCA Victor single, recorded 09/30/1949, released 12/1949.
2-05 From No More Walls, RCA Red Seal recorded 06/31/1961.
2-06 From Poetry for the Beat generation, Hanover, recorded 03/1958, released 06/1959.
2-07 Excerpt from The Hidden Revolution CBS Radio [news series], broadcast 04/05/1960.
2-08 Clef single, recorded 12/30/1952, released 01/1955.
2-09 From Kookie, Warner, released 1959.
2-10 Debut single, recorded 04/29/1953.
2-11 From Word Jazz Vol. II, Dot Jazz Horizons, released 1957.
2-12 From Beatsville, HiFi, released 11/1959.
2-13 From For the Young at Heart, RCA, released 1961.
2-14 From Poetry and Jazz / At the Blackhawk, Fantasy, released 05/1960.
2-15 From The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce, Fantasy, recorded 1958, released 01/1959.

3-01 From Foreign Affairs, Asylum, recorded 07/08/1977, released 10/1977.
3-02 From The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, NBC TV, broadcast 11/16/1959.
3-03 From The Ben Hecht Show, WABC TV, broadcast 10/17/1958.
3-04 From Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales, Roulette, released 01/1961.
3-05 From How to Speak Hip, Mercury, released 1961.
3-06 From Sin & Soul, Columbia, recorded 10/23/1960, released 12/19/1960.
3-07 From How to Speak Hip, Mercury, released 1961
3-08 MGM single, released 06/1958.
3-09 Swing single
3-10 Capitol single, recorded 01/20/1949, released 04/04/1949.
3-11 Roulette single, released 11/1959.
3-12 From Staccato: a Revue Television Production starring John Cassavetes, Capitol, released 11/1959.
3-13 CBC Television news feature, broadcast 10/28/1959.
3-14 From Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Pacific Jazz, recorded 04/27/1953.
3-15 CBC Television news feature, broadcast 06/09/1959.
3-16 From Howl, Fantasy, recorded 06/59.

Alternative catalog number on booklet R2/R4 70281.

Barcode: 081227028121
Other: 0-930589-87-4 (ISBN)