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1950S TEEN CULTURE AND BEATS

1950S TEEN CULTURE AND BEATS. EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA. 1950S TEENAGE CULTURE: MUSIC AND MOVIES MADE FOR TEEN AUDIENCE (A FIRST)

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1950S TEEN CULTURE AND BEATS

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  1. 1950S TEEN CULTURE AND BEATS EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA

  2. 1950S TEENAGE CULTURE: MUSIC AND MOVIES MADE FOR TEEN AUDIENCE (A FIRST) • OSTENSIBLY REBELLIOUS -BUT MOST WHITE TEENAGERS LISTENED TO THE SAME MUSIC (WHITE IMITATIONS OF BLACK MUSIC), WATCHED THE SAME MOVIES, WORE THE SAME CLOTHES BILL HALEY AND THE COMETS "ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK" ELVIS PRESLEY "DON'T BE CRUEL" "LITTLE RICHARD" PENNIMAN "GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY"

  3. THE 1950s: A TIME OF PROSPERITY AND PARANOIA, CONFORMITY AND CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION, OF UNDECLARED WAR AND GOVERNMENT DECEIT  • "COUNTER-CULTURE" – THE REACTION • PHASE 1: THE BEATS: NEO-ROMANTIC LITERARY MOVEMENT ORIGINATING AT COLUMBIA (INCLUDED VETS ON GI BILL) • REJECTED CONFORMITY, MATERIALISM, INTEREST IN EASTERN RELIGIONS – AND ON MAKING LITERATURE THAT SOUNDED LIKE JAZZ • (EVERYTHING ON THE FOLLOWING SLIDES IS MUST-READ GREAT AMERICAN LITERATURE

  4. 1957 "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everyone goes “Awww!”

  5. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, NAKED LUNCH, 1959 "A functioning police state needs no police. " "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers."

  6. ALLEN GINSBURG, "HOWL," 1955 "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz. . ."

  7. GINSBERG WAS INSPIRED BY WALT WHITMAN. THIS IS WHITMAN'S "AMERICA" (1888, RECORDED 1889) "Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair'd in the adamant of Time".

  8. COMPARE IT TO ALLEN GINSBERG'S "AMERICA," 1956 HAL CHASE, KEROUAC, GINSBERG AND BURROUGHS AT COLUMBIA, 1944

  9. NOT A BEAT, BUT ANOTHER WWII VET DISAFFECTED WITH AMERICAN POST-WAR CONFORMITY AND MATERIALISM

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