The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics...
69 KB (9,059 words) - 15:39, 23 June 2024
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...
8 KB (989 words) - 21:45, 20 February 2024
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...
4 KB (371 words) - 21:44, 20 February 2024
similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation). A familial generation is a group of living beings constituting a single...
75 KB (7,832 words) - 00:38, 4 September 2024
Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac and was originally released in 1959. Initial performances...
3 KB (235 words) - 18:06, 11 September 2021
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...
100 KB (11,167 words) - 04:10, 6 August 2024
Jazz poetry (section Bebop and the beat generation)
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...
7 KB (995 words) - 18:45, 20 July 2024
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...
49 KB (6,410 words) - 19:43, 5 September 2024
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...
22 KB (2,333 words) - 17:42, 3 May 2024
2007 Unit of action, or beat, in acting Beat Generation Beat Magazine Beat (name), a Swiss German male given name Jackie Beat, drag persona of Kent Fuher...
5 KB (669 words) - 15:16, 18 June 2024
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...
110 KB (12,984 words) - 21:49, 2 September 2024
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...
36 KB (4,487 words) - 02:14, 25 July 2024
The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the...
59 KB (5,570 words) - 17:17, 9 August 2024
Barely Breaking Even (section Beat Generation series)
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)...
5 KB (395 words) - 21:04, 8 May 2024
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...
7 KB (591 words) - 03:04, 21 January 2021
UK underground (section Beat generation influence)
Many in the blossoming underground movement were influenced by 1950s Beat generation writers such as William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who paved the...
12 KB (1,361 words) - 16:30, 2 September 2024
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...
111 KB (14,182 words) - 16:43, 5 September 2024
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...
5 KB (592 words) - 04:02, 16 February 2024
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...
8 KB (901 words) - 23:01, 8 March 2024
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...
150 KB (16,428 words) - 07:41, 4 September 2024
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...
28 KB (3,880 words) - 22:38, 18 July 2024
Li Bai (section Reference in Beat Generation)
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...
57 KB (7,630 words) - 22:09, 1 August 2024
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...
7 KB (611 words) - 18:24, 7 May 2024
bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation (exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg...
25 KB (2,857 words) - 21:47, 16 August 2024
religion and spirituality. It is directly influenced and inspired by the Beat Generation, and American involvement in the Vietnam War. From around 1967, its...
80 KB (9,823 words) - 16:18, 15 August 2024
saxophone. Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual...
56 KB (6,309 words) - 22:00, 30 August 2024
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...
17 KB (1,986 words) - 13:03, 30 May 2024
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...
5 KB (449 words) - 12:03, 27 August 2024
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...
129 KB (16,268 words) - 11:11, 28 August 2024
San Francisco Renaissance (category Beat Generation)
Center". epc.buffalo.edu. "Silliman's Blog". Morgan, Bill (2003). The Beat Generation in San Francisco. San Francisco: City Lights Publishing. p. 110. Watts...
17 KB (1,915 words) - 02:55, 4 September 2023