Beat Generation

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cultural movement literary movement

The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.

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All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
Beat Generation canonical 145
Beat Generation writers 6
Beat poets 6

Statements (70)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural movement ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
centeredIn New York City ⓘ
San Francisco ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
genre essays ⓘ
memoir ⓘ
novels ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
hasMainSubject Buddhism ⓘ
Eastern philosophy ⓘ
counterculture ⓘ
drug use ⓘ
jazz ⓘ
nonconformity ⓘ
sexuality ⓘ
spirituality ⓘ
spontaneous prose ⓘ
travel ⓘ
hasNotableMember Allen Ginsberg ⓘ
Gary Snyder ⓘ
Gregory Corso ⓘ
Herbert Huncke ⓘ
Jack Kerouac ⓘ
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ
Neal Cassady ⓘ
Peter Orlovsky ⓘ
William S. Burroughs ⓘ
hasNotableWork Dharma Bums ⓘ
Howl ⓘ
Junkie ⓘ
Kaddish ⓘ
Naked Lunch ⓘ
On the Road ⓘ
inception mid-20th century ⓘ
influenced 1960s counterculture ⓘ
Beatniks ⓘ
New Left ⓘ
hippie movement ⓘ
performance poetry ⓘ
postmodern literature ⓘ
rock music lyrics ⓘ
spoken word poetry ⓘ
influencedBy Dada ⓘ
Romanticism ⓘ
Surrealism ⓘ
Transcendentalism ⓘ
Chan Buddhism ⓘ
surface form: Zen Buddhism

jazz music ⓘ
modernism ⓘ
language English ⓘ
mainRegion North America ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
movementCharacteristic critique of materialism ⓘ
experimentation with form ⓘ
exploration of consciousness ⓘ
open discussion of sexuality ⓘ
rejection of conventional values ⓘ
road narratives ⓘ
spontaneous composition ⓘ
stream-of-consciousness writing ⓘ
urban settings ⓘ
use of taboo language ⓘ
relatedConcept Beatniks ⓘ
surface form: Beatnik

Black Mountain poets ⓘ
Confessional poetry ⓘ
San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ
timePeriod 1940s ⓘ
1950s ⓘ
1960s ⓘ

Referenced by (174)

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

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this entity surface form: The Beat Generation
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Amiri Baraka → movement → Beat Generation ⓘ
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Allen Ginsberg → movement → Beat Generation ⓘ
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