Beats Movement Notes

originating in the 1950s and centred in the bohemian artist communities of San Francisco’s North Beach, Los Angeles’ Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village. britannica.com

beat comes from jazz music and culture of drugs, spirituality, buddhism, and exploratation of spirituality

http://www.beatmuseum.org/

Allen Ginsberg:

birth and death years: (1926-1997)

major works: Howl, Kaddish,

“the foundation of Ginsberg’s work was the notion that one’s individual thoughts and experiences resonated among the masses”

http://allenginsberg.org/#!/biography

Grew up in New Jersey, went to Columbia University, arrested by SFPD for the obscene language in Howl, later cleared

Howl became the manifesto of the Beat Movement in San Francisco

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/allen-ginsberg

William Burroughs

http://www.beatmuseum.org/

egs.edu

1914-1997

went to Harvard

out homosexual

know as Godfather of Punk

addicted to heroin

his undreground work Naked Lunch is most well know and later turned into a movie

got away with killing his second wife Joan vollmer

joined the army

Jack Kerouac:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jack-kerouac

http://www.jackkerouac.com/

1922-1969 born in massacusetts and raisied as a roman catholic

died at the age of 47 in Florida married to Stella Sampas

got a football scholarship to Columbia University

coined term Beat Movement

famous work: on the road

joined the merchant marines then went back to Columbia then joined the navy

Neal Cassidy 1926 - 1968

Major figure in the beats movement

Born in Utah

knew Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in New York

Cassady