The Beat Generation: An Overview - Research Article from Beat Generation

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 381 pages of information about The Beat Generation.

The Beat Generation: An Overview - Research Article from Beat Generation

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 381 pages of information about The Beat Generation.
This section contains 114,142 words
(approx. 381 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Beat Generation: An Overview Encyclopedia Article

Originating in the 1950s and primarily centered in select communities of California, such as North Beach and Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village, the Beat Generation essentially constituted a countercultural movement in opposition to the traditional, established culture of mid-twentieth-century America. Extending in scope beyond the world of art, literature, painting, and music, the Beat movement included a wide variety of social expression. Adherents of the Beat Generation originally coined the term “beat” to signify their weariness with society in general, but also used the word in a spiritual sense, the beatific inspiration that many of them found in music and religion, including Buddhism, Zen, and other Eastern philosophies. Often using their lifestyle as a means through which to convey their alienation from contemporary society, the Beats expressed their defiance of convention through experiments...

(read more)

This section contains 114,142 words
(approx. 381 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Beat Generation: An Overview Encyclopedia Article
Copyrights
Gale
The Beat Generation: An Overview from Gale. ©2008 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.