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    The Beat Generation was a social and literary movement that originated in the 1950s in cities like San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, bringing together bohemian artists who wanted to break free from societal rules through practices like free sex, drug use, listening to jazz music, and following Zen Buddhism. Led by Jack Kerouac, the Beat movement used chaotic, authentic poetry with sexual references to liberate self-expression and had a lasting influence, forming the basis for later movements like the hippies.

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    The Beat Generation was a social and literary movement that originated in the 1950s in cities like San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, bringing together bohemian artists who wanted to break free from societal rules through practices like free sex, drug use, listening to jazz music, and following Zen Buddhism. Led by Jack Kerouac, the Beat movement used chaotic, authentic poetry with sexual references to liberate self-expression and had a lasting influence, forming the basis for later movements like the hippies.

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    BEAT GENERATION

    Originated in America in 1950s


    It was a social and literary movement in the USA
    Joined bohemian artists' communities
    Developed in San Francisco, New York, LA...
    "BEAT" means tired spirituality, as well as "beatific".
    Who became part of the movement was known as "beatnik"
    Wanted the broken rules of society, with free sex, drug use, alcohol and practicing
    disciplines of Zen Buddhism, also listening to jazz music.
    they adopt a style in the ways of doing and dressing as that of jazz musicians.
    They changed poetry into another form of expression.
    Poetry told of the authentic lived experience.
    The verse was chaotic with sexual references.
    The works are a way to free the poetry of the academic schemes.
    Jack Kerouac was the leader of this move
    Around 1960, the Beat movement began to break, the effects of this movement
    remained in time and were the basis of new movements like the hippie one

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