Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Jazz===
Writers of the Beat Generation were heavily influenced by [[jazz]] artists like [[Billie Holiday]] and the stories told through Jazz music. Writers like [[Jack Kerouac]] (''On the Road''), Bob Kaufman ("Round About Midnight," "Jazz Chick," and "O-Jazz-O"), and [[Frank O'Hara]] ("The Day Lady Died") incorporated the emotions they felt toward jazz. They used their pieces to discuss feelings, people, and objects they associate with jazz music, as well as life experiences that reminded them of this style of music. Kaufman's pieces listed above "were intended to be freely improvisational when read with Jazz accompaniment" (Charters 327). He and other writers found inspiration in this genre and allowed it to help fuel the Beat movement.