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    The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics...
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  • The Beat Generation is a 1959 American crime film noir from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain...
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    similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation). A familial generation is a group of living beings constituting a single...
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    Jack Kerouac (category Beat Generation writers)
    alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking...
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  • pattern Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing Beats (video game), 2007 Unit of action, or beat, in acting Beat Generation Beat Magazine...
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  • Beatnik (category Beat Generation)
    followers of the Beat Generation, a group of influential writers and artists who emerged during the era of the Silent Generation's maturing, from as...
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    sculpture, collage, and handmade art books. An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen is also known for his role in inspiring...
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    The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the...
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  • life with her first husband, Jack Kerouac, and the early days of the Beat Generation. While an art student under George Grosz at Barnard College, she and...
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  • maintained in the 1950s by counterculture poets like those of the Beat generation, and adapted in modern times into hip-hop music and live poetry events...
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    Allen Ginsberg (category Beat Generation poets)
    Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual...
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    Many in the blossoming underground movement were influenced by 1950s Beat generation writers such as William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who paved the...
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    William S. Burroughs (category Beat Generation writers)
    and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature...
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    Published by Atticus Press, 1983. ISBN 0-912377-00-3. The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960, by Steven Watson. Published...
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    Bethge's text. Li Bai's poetry can be seen as having an influence on Beat Generation writer Gary Snyder during Snyder's years of studying Asian culture...
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    Hippie (redirect from Hippie generation)
    up-to-date". The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies adopted the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created...
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  • sublabels: Deep Funk, and Urban Theory. BBE is also notable for its Beat Generation series of LPs. BlackCoffee Bombay Monkey Dark Room Notes J Dilla (deceased)...
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  • Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac and was originally released in 1959. Initial performances...
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    On the Road (category Beat novels)
    States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of...
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  • Lucien Carr (category Beat Generation people)
    2005) was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s and also a convicted manslaughterer. He later worked for...
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    bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation (exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg...
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  • autobiography by Carolyn Cassady. The film is about seminal figures in the Beat Generation. The character of Ira, played by Ray Sharkey, is based on Allen Ginsberg...
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    (1958), High School Confidential (1958), Born Reckless (1958), The Beat Generation (1959), and Sex Kittens Go To College (1960). She starred on television...
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  • Beat Generation is a play written by Jack Kerouac upon returning home to Florida after his seminal work On the Road had been published in 1957. Gerald...
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  • and Lita Grey, and is known for appearing in 1950s films such as The Beat Generation and Fangs of the Wild. Chaplin was born in Beverly Hills, California...
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  • religion and spirituality. It is directly influenced and inspired by the Beat Generation, and American involvement in the Vietnam War. From around 1967, its...
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    family in Pomona, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk circuit. He relocated to Los...
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    literature. It came to be associated with the group of writers known as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg read a draft of "Howl" at the Six Gallery reading in San...
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  • rather than the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. As the initial wave of rock and roll subsided in the later 1950s, "big beat" music, later...
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  • Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation is the third and final spoken word album by the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, released in January...
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