BEATNIKS

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BEATNIKS
By Cadet Haller
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Beatniks

• Beatniks frequently rejected middle-class
  American values, customs, and tastes in favor of
  radical politics and exotic jazz, art, and
  literature.

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Jack Kerouac

• The term beat generation was introduced by Jack
  Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his
  social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes
  (who published an early novel about the beat
  generation.

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Allen Ginsberg

• Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American Beat poet
  born in Paterson, New Jersey. He formed a bridge
  between the Beat movement of the 1950s and the
  hippies of the 1960s, befriending, among others.

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Bob Dylan

• Bob Dylan is widely regarded as one of America's
  greatest popular songwriters. Much of his
  best-known work is from the 1960s.

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Beat Slang

• Daddy-O (a term of address) Cool, man, cool
  and strictly dullsville are examples of beat
  slang.

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• Beatniks often hung out in smoky jazz clubs or at
  the city lights book store.