References in On the Road
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On the Road is a novel written by Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), during his early adulthood in the late 1940s, and published by Viking Press in 1957. The events in the novel are almost entirely drawn from Kerouac's life. His journals and notes were filled with detailed accounts of his travels across North America, including popular songs, books and products of the day. Even the characters in On the Road were given pseudonyms to conceal the identities of their real-life counterparts.
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Music
Overture from Fidelio | Ludwig van Beethoven | p.52 |
Sweet Adeline | (barbershop quartet) | p.54 |
Central Avenue Breakdown | Lionel Hampton | p.87 |
Lover Man | Billie Holiday | p.98 |
Mañana | Peggy Lee | p.99 |
Blue Skies | n/a | p.100 |
The Hunt | Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray | pp.113,127 |
A Fine Romance | (music box) | p.119 |
Cement Mixer | Slim Gaillard | p.176 |
C-jam Blues | Slim Gaillard | p.176 |
Close Your Eyes | (male singer) | p.198 |
Congo Blues | Red Norvo Sextet w/ Dizzy Gillespie | p.219 |
Gator Tail | The Cootie Williams band w/ Willis Jackson | p.250 |
Lester Jumps In | Lester Young | p.251 |
Baby's Pudding | Wynonie Blues Harris | p.273 |
Chattanooga de Mambo | Perez Prado | p.287 |
More Mambo Jambo | Perez Prado | p.287 |
Mambo Numero Ocho | Perez Prado | p.287 |
Mambo Jambo | Perez Prado | p.287 |
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Books
The Town and the City (“The book”) | Jack Kerouac (“John Kerouac”) | pp.6 |
The New Yorker | p.10 | |
The Oregon Trail | Francis Parkman | p.19 |
Life in the Far West | George F. Ruxton | p.38 |
Green Hills of Africa | Ernest Hemingway | p.57 |
Blue Book adventures of Oregon | p.64 | |
Le grand meaulnes | Alain-Fournier | p.102 |
New Orleans Times-Picayune want-ads | p.147 | |
Les Mystères de Paris (en: “Mysteries of Paris”) | Eugène Sue | pp.188,192 |
Mayan codices | p.144 |
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Movies
The Mark of Zorro | Dir. Rouben Mamoulian | 1940 | p.64 |
Sullivan's Travels | Dir. Preston Sturges | 1941 | p.82 |
Of Mice and Men | Dir. Lewis Milestone | 1939 | p.90 |
(“Hollywood prèmiere 10/26/47”) | p.101 | ||
Background to Danger | Dir. Raoul Walsh | 1943 | p.244 |
(“Singing Cowboy Eddie Dean”) | p.244 |
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Radio shows
1948 Midnight New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square | p.124 |
Chicken Jazz'n Gumbo Disc-jockey Show from New Orleans | p.140 |
Mystery programme | p.156 |
(“Radio Show from Clint, TX”) | p.162 |
The Lone Ranger Show | p.214 |
The Symphony Sid Show | p.246 |
Marty Glickman commentating New York Knicks basketball games | p.250 |
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