Beat generation

The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: "This is the beat generation"). The adjective "beat" (introduced by Herbert Huncke) had the connotations of "tired" or "down and out", but Kerouac added the paradoxical connotations of "upbeat", "beatific", and the musical association of being "on the beat".

External links

• Beat Generation
• Beat Literature: Open Directory Project
• Biographies of Beat Generation writers, artists, & poets
• Beat Generation photographs by Larry Keenan
• Blue Neon Alley - Beat Generation directory
• Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland
• Fathers of Beat: Website on Beat Generation Writers and run-ins with the law
• Beat Generation and Bohemian Culture - the movement at digihitch