American Road

American Road explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the myth of the road –and especially of going off the beaten track ‐ in American lore: Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post‐war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it, hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s, and later generations of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. The American road has inspired poetry, art, folk music, novelists and playwrights.