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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (81)

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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