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In the past due 1950s and early on 1960s, the writers of the Whip Generation revolutionized American books using their iconoclastic method of language and their furious assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar culture. They and their enthusiasts took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their own time - particularly those involving intimacy, race, and class - in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Street (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch time (1959). In this Very Short Benefits, David Sterritt offers a concise summary of the social, cultural, and visual sensibilities of the Beats, offering the similarities that linked them as well as the many dissimilarities that made them a loosely knit collective somewhat than an prepared movement. Results in the saga include Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, and Gary Snyder. As Sterritt runs from Greenwich Town and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to Mexico, american European countries, and North Africa, he sheds much light how the Beats approached books, drugs, sexuality, art work, music, and faith. Associates of the Whip Generation hoped that their radical rejection of materialism, consumerism, and regimentation would inspire others to purify their lives and souls as well. Yet they urged the remaking of awareness on the profoundly inward-looking basis, cultivating "the unspeakable visions of the individual," in Kerouac's expression. The idea was to revolutionize culture by revolutionizing thought, not the other way around. This audiobook talks about the way the Beats used their antiauthoritarian visions and radical styles to issue dominant values, fending off absorption into mainstream culture while organizing ground for the larger, more explosive sociable upheavals of the 1960s. Over fifty percent a century later, the Beats' impact can be felt in books, cinema, music, theatre, and the visual arts. This compact introduction talks about why.
