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How Did The Beat Generation Become A Thing In The 40's

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The beat generation took place in the 1940’s and lasted up to the 60’s. It was a literary and artistic movement started by the literary icon Jack Kerouac, with the help of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The term “beatnik” was in most peoples opinion another word for a hippie. It consisted of lots of drug use, college kids, and modernism. It was a way of "being" and what you would nowadays call a “hipster.” Though when Beat poetry became a thing in the 40’s and was mainly popular in the west coast and New York City, San Francisco became the mecca of it all at the start of the fifties. One of the main reasons Beat poets became Beat poets is because people like Allen began to question “mainstream” issues. “America this is quite serious.
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