Beat generation cultural movement

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cultural movement literary movement

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.

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

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
coinedBy	Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Left culture NERFINISHED ⓘ hippie movement NERFINISHED ⓘ performance poetry ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ rock music lyrics ⓘ spoken word poetry ⓘ underground press ⓘ
hasKeyEvent	Howl obscenity trial NERFINISHED ⓘ Six Gallery reading NERFINISHED ⓘ publication of Howl and Other Poems ⓘ publication of On the Road ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Allen Ginsberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Amiri Baraka NERFINISHED ⓘ Anne Waldman NERFINISHED ⓘ Diane di Prima NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Snyder NERFINISHED ⓘ Gregory Corso NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert Huncke NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Vollmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth Rexroth NERFINISHED ⓘ Lawrence Ferlinghetti NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucien Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael McClure NERFINISHED ⓘ Neal Cassady NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Orlovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Lamantia NERFINISHED ⓘ William S. Burroughs NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasKeyWork	Dharma Bums NERFINISHED ⓘ Howl NERFINISHED ⓘ Junkie NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaddish NERFINISHED ⓘ Naked Lunch NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Road NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMainLocation	Greenwich Village, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ North Beach, San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPhilosophicalInfluence	Christian mysticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Transcendentalism NERFINISHED ⓘ Zen Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ existentialism ⓘ jazz culture ⓘ
hasRelatedConcept	Beatnik NERFINISHED ⓘ 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 generation cultural movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beat poetry movement