Beat generation cultural movement

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The Beat generation cultural movement was a mid-20th-century American literary and artistic wave that rejected mainstream values through experimental writing, spiritual exploration, and bohemian lifestyles, profoundly influencing later counterculture.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Beat culture 4
Beat generation cultural movement canonical 1
Beat poetry movement 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural movement
literary movement
coinedBy Jack Kerouac
countryOfOrigin United States
endTime early 1960s
field American literature
poetry
prose
hasAestheticInfluence cut-up technique
jazz improvisation
stream of consciousness
hasCharacteristic anti-materialism
bohemian lifestyle
drug experimentation
interest in Eastern religions
nonconformity
rejection of mainstream American values
sexual liberation
spiritual exploration
spontaneous prose techniques
hasCoreActivity experimental writing
oral performance
poetry
prose fiction
hasInfluenceOn 1960s counterculture
Beatnik subculture
New American Poetry
New Left culture
linked to: New Left

hippie movement
performance poetry
postmodern literature
rock music lyrics
spoken word poetry
underground press
hasKeyEvent Howl obscenity trial
Six Gallery reading
publication of Howl and Other Poems
publication of On the Road
hasKeyFigure Allen Ginsberg
Amiri Baraka
Anne Waldman
linked to: Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima
Gary Snyder
Gregory Corso
Herbert Huncke
Jack Kerouac
Joan Vollmer
Kenneth Rexroth
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lucien Carr
Michael McClure
Neal Cassady
Peter Orlovsky
Philip Lamantia
William S. Burroughs
hasKeyWork Dharma Bums
Howl
Junkie
Kaddish
Naked Lunch
On the Road
hasMainLocation Greenwich Village, New York City
linked to: Greenwich Village

New York City
North Beach, San Francisco
San Francisco
hasPhilosophicalInfluence Christian mysticism
Romanticism
Tibetan Buddhism
Transcendentalism
Zen Buddhism
linked to: Zen

existentialism
jazz culture
hasRelatedConcept Beatnik
linked to: Beatniks

bohemianism
counterculture of the 1960s
language English
movementSlogan Beat as in beatific
opposes McCarthyism
conformist postwar American culture
consumerism
startTime mid-1940s

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Wallace Berman participantIn Beat generation cultural movement
John Wieners participatedIn Beat poetry movement
linked to: Beat generation cultural movement
Jay DeFeo influencedBy Beat culture
linked to: Beat generation cultural movement
Verifax collages influencedBy Beat culture
linked to: Beat generation cultural movement
Aleph series influencedBy Beat culture
linked to: Beat generation cultural movement
Cross hasCulturalContext Beat culture
linked to: Beat generation cultural movement
Mardou Fox involvedIn Beat subculture
linked to: Beat generation cultural movement