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https://youtu.be/XYitYHntLI4

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The Beatniks thought that their style of writing and their beliefs were better than the more conservative views. They were considered radical at the time. The Beatniks were influenced by Romantic Writers and also all other radicals before them. They were also influenced by cultures the opposite of theirs (cultures of religion or the normal american culture)

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Women in the Beat Generation were often unappreciated. They were allowed in on meetings, but their contributions were hardly ever noticed, and they weren't taken seriously. Because of the vulgar nature of Beat Writings, some men believed that women were too fragile to enjoy it, so women were exploited to trick other cultures that women were accepted within the new writing community.

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The founders of the Beat Generation met because they had drugs in common. Drugs and alcohol for Beatniks was like a handshake for Americans.

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In the beginning they were apart of a murder. Lucien Carr killed David  Kammerer and the rest of the beatniks at the time were accomplices in the crime. They also struggled to gain traction and recognition in the beginning of their career because the general public was apprehensive to read new material that they had never seen before. There was many struggles with drugs and the law, but the Beatniks hardly saw it as struggles- they took it as inspiration.

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The Beatniks were hardly functional (as many writers are). They got in trouble with the law and didn't have traditional laws. Their function is more like the lack of function. However, they all agreed that each of them needed to do as much as they could so that the movement would stick around for a long time.

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Type writers were commonly used to write on. Jack Kerouac bought a scroll that he typed 'On the Road' on without any stops, making it the first book to be written in that manner. The Beatniks also experimented with many new types of drugs to see what the limits of their brains were.

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Kerouac was the voice of the Beat Generation after his novel 'On the Road' and took the role in representing the Beatniks until he left after not wanting to be attached anymore.

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The movement was mainly in America among English speakers. They all also shared a common language of creativity and being able to take anything and create a story out of it. The Beats wrote in the language of the street about previously forbidden and non literary topics. A logo represented the Beat Generation.

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Material: Having success, relationships, books
Non-Material: Creativity and imagination, standing out from everyone else

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Folkways: everyone did drugs because they thought it would enhance their creativity
Mores: To be apart of the beatniks they would have to challenge the status quo and be an out of the box writer and be accepting
Law: No killing people
"J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, famously said that communists and beatniks were two of the greatest threats to American culture."

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Sprouted from 3 figures:
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs
They met at colombia and what brought them together was their love for writing it was wider than just writing but what people were attracted to was that writing at the time was so structured that they wanted creative freedom.