With the exception of disco, there may not be a major musical movement in the second half of the Twentieth Century that was not touched by the Beats. Folk? Allen Ginsberg was a part of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. Psychedelia? Neal Cassady drove the bus for Ken Kesey's acid tests with the Grateful Dead aboard. Heavy metal? There's not enough space to list all the band names derived from books by William Burroughs. Punk? Burroughs was a mentor to Patti Smith in New York, and Ginsberg rec...