https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f en-us 2016-04-15 18:09:49 UTC 2025-11-02 14:28:10 UTC hello@padlet.com charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106080520 The Beat Movement conflicted with the tidy suburban view of life and set the stage for counterculture that would surface in the 1960s. Centered in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City’s Greenwich Village, the beat movement expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers. Followers beats or beatniks, lived ­nonconformist lives. They tended to shun regular work and sought a higher consciousness through Zen Buddhism, music, and, sometimes, drugs.]]> 2016-04-15 18:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106080520 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106512711 "A social and artistic movement of the 1950s, stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture."]]> 2016-04-19 12:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106512711 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106513378 American businesses took advantage of the opportunities offered by the new television industry. Advertising expenditures on TV, which were $170 million in 1950, reached nearly $2 billion in 1960.]]> 2016-04-19 12:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106513378 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106513741 While beats expressed themselves in unstructured literature, musicians in the 1950s added electronic instruments to traditional blues music, creating rhythm and blues.]]> 2016-04-19 12:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106513741 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106514199 Electronic instruments were added to traditional blues music, creating rhythm and blues. Alan Freed was among the first to play this music. This type of music was mainly produced by African Americans but mainly listened to by whites. He called this music rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll became known as music that is American. ]]> 2016-04-19 12:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106514199 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106514373 Many beat poets and writers expressed their works in free form. They read their poetry in coffeehouses and other places. Allen Ginsberg’s long, free-verse poem, Howl, published in 1956, and Jack Kerouac’s novel of the movement, On the Road, published in 1957 are some examples. ]]> 2016-04-19 12:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106514373 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106514634 Published his book On the Road, the book became an American classic that defined the Beat Generation.]]> 2016-04-19 12:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106514634 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106515478  writer/poet. Jones joined the Beat movement in Greenwich Village. After the assassination of Malcolm X, he took the name Amiri Baraka and became involved in the Black Nationalist poetry and literature scenes.]]> 2016-04-19 12:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106515478 charleser17 https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106516518 In the early and mid-1950s, Richard Penniman, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and His Comets, and especially Elvis Presley made rock ‘n’ roll to a frantic pitch of popularity among the newly affluent teens who bought their records.]]> 2016-04-19 12:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/charleser17/q5ybzn322x0f/wish/106516518