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Beatniks were members of a social movement in the mid-20th century, who subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle. They rejected the conformity and consumerism of mainstream American culture and expressed themselves through various forms of art, such as literature, poetry, music, and painting.
Beatniks and the Beat Movement. The Beat movement was a literary movement that became a social movement as well. In the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a group of writers shared a deep distaste for American culture and society as it existed after World War II (1939–45).
In the 1950s, a Beatnik subculture formed around the literary movement, although this was often viewed critically by major authors of the Beat movement. In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements.
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Beat movement, American social and literary movement originating in the 1950s and centred in the bohemian artist communities of San Francisco’s North Beach, Los Angeles’ Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village.
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May 5, 2019 · The 1960 Republican Convention featured J. Edgar Hoover proclaiming that “Communists, Eggheads, and Beatniks” were the country’s great enemies. Some Americans associated beatniks with drugs, delinquency, and un-Americanism.
Oct 24, 2016 · In this gallery, we look at fascinating images of what life looked like in the Beatniks’ New York of the 1950s and 1960s: At the center of the Beat movement were writers Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac, who maintained lifelong friendships with one another.
Apr 9, 2011 · Dan Drasin's 1961 film, Sunday, captured the April 9, 1961, conflict between New York City folk musicians and police that came to be known as the Beatnik Riot. On April 9, 1961, several hundred...
