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Beatnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beat Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called ...
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He wrote condescendingly that " Look Magazine hosted a party for 50 Beatniks... and over 250 bearded cats and kits were on hand... They're only Beat, y'know, when it comes to work ..." ... Beatniks frequently rejected middle-class American values, customs, and tastes in favor of radical politics and exotic jazz, art,
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This page provides free information about beatniks ... 1 definition for beatniks ... beatniks n : a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) [syn: beat generation, beats]
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Middle-class, conventional, smugly content Americans reading their Time and Life magazines could sit back, happy in their prosperity, and safely chuckle over the antics of the beatniks. Turtle necks, bongos and berets--what fun.
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These icons represent, to some extent, the difference between the "beats" as they knew themselves and the "beatniks" as they were defined and translated into myth by a Fifties mind set.
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Beatnik characters abound in 1960s film and television, starting with Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs on the show "Dobie Gillis." As beatploitation became a minor B-movie idiom, such movies as Roger Corman's "Bucket of Blood" gave mild-mannered beatniks a less than beatific cast.
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