Culture and society

[oakfarm]

  

I have read a thin book by a Swedish beat writer (Sture Dahlström). Didn’t know that that existed. A book about young men who drinks, write, play jazz, meet and has sex with many women and travel to Costa del Sol in Spain. Shallow difference between that book and On the road is that’s no drugs beside alcohol and was there any sex (straight or non-straight) in On the road?

 

Then it comes to TV shows I tried to watch a historical show called Vår tid är nu, “Our time is now”. Nowadays some Scandinavian TV shows are watched outside Scandinavia, right? Shows like Norwegian youth dram Skam and Swedish-Danish crime show Bron/Broen ? So maybe Our time is now will be sold “overseas". The show starts in Stockholm on Victory Day in Europe 1945. To me it looked like they in a not too subtle way showed the death of the old, conservative, German friendly Sweden that was replaced with a country that’s social democratic and perhaps American friendly the same way (especially until the Vietnam war). 

 

At last, because I now have nieces I try to remember song from my childhood. They are still too young for the songs we learned in elementary school. But if they were not, I still should not teach them those songs. We sang a lot of peace songs in school. I can remember two songs that referred nuclear weapon. The 80s was a weird time.

 

Comments

[cactus_rs]

There was definitely sex in On the Road though I don't know how explicit. But now there's another book to add to my (never-ending, ever-growing) TBR. I just finished Amerikanskt by Ester Blenda Nordström, a road trip book but 30 years too early to be Beat. Still, really good!

[oakfarm]

Ester Blenda Nordström, I had her on my list of books to read, but I forgot that. Thanks for the reminder

[cactus_rs]

Please let me know if you find any of her writing about traveling throughout Japan and Korea! It doesn't seem to be assembled into any book form (yet), but my Google fu isn't always great.

[oakfarm]

Sure I remember that.