The Beat

later published in 1957, explaining the life of people after the World War II. This novel gives a voice to a new generation known as the Beat Generation who were the counterculture to the culture before World War II in America. The novel provides us readers…

Often referred to as the beatniks, a parody of the USSR’s “Sputnik” (Enck), the Beat Generation stands in stark contrast to 1950’s American culture. With the rapid emergence of a post-WWII society - suburbs and consumerism, traditional family values and an exclusion of the extreme - entered the authors who rejected it. Their ideology, shocking to those of their time, ultimately led to the creation of a nation-wide literary movement. The roots of this movement took place during 1944 near Columbia…

“The Photographer in the Beat-Hipster Idiom: Robert Frank's The Americans” , in which Cotkin carves out the connections between Robert Frank and the philosophies of the Beat movement artists, the most surprising statement appears quite at the beginning: Almost all theorists, says Cotkin, who have so far reviewed and analyzed Frank's work, have done so without paying closer attention to said link between the artists (21). They do mention Jack Kerouac, maybe even quote the Beat author in their…

of American Youth and the Beat Generation In the 1950’s American youth was victimized for their own social and spontaneous pleasure. Teens were not allowed to do much of what they wanted and were restricted of nearly everything. This book shows the struggle between teens trying to express who they are and the restrictions given by society. The novel, On the Road by Jack Kerouac portrays the disillusionment of American youth which was then a major contribution to the "Beat" generation. First of…

comment: “Most enterprises that follow any "decent" framework should have an auto lockout policy.” There is nothing broken with this statement. I am offering an opinion, therefore why would I use the word: “MUST” or even infer to anyone that I will “beat the drum slowly until they listen to me.” I was making an observation and responding. Whether or not an organization uses a framework was beyond the scope of my answer. “SHOULD HAVE” is a matter of “if you don’t you may want to look into it.”…

as sadness, negativity, excitement and happiness. The slow beat of the song" Stars and the Moon" along with the combined with the singer’s tone gave me a feeling of sadness before words were even sung. On the other hand, the upbeat tempo combines with the quicker beat of the "New World" gave me instantaneous feeling of happiness. This could also be seen in the audience members. There were smiles and audience members moving with the beat of the uplifting songs where when the songs of hopelessness…

It started with a soft and slow tempo that became more fast over time. The initial melody had syncopation that made you want to dance slowly side to side; it was quite a slow romantic song. The drums kept a steady soft 3/3 beat. After the initial melody, the vocalist started singing lyrics that incorporated the title of the song. His voice was a little hard to understand, at times it sounded as if he had a really thick accent or as if he was mumbling the lyrics. Even though…

Breaking the Mold Jazz music in the 1950’s typically consisted of smooth, melodic lines, and compositions in 4/4, and in some cases, 3/4 rhythm, which made it easy for listeners to dance along to, therefore boosting the popularity of the particular band. Dave Brubeck went against this commonality, and created music that he enjoyed playing, rather than composing songs that fit into the standardized “jazz mold.” This decade introduced some immensely talented jazz musicians with the innovative…

Track 2 (“Baby Be Mine”): This song starts with percussion and synthesizer sound effects. The lyrics begin at 0:20. I noticed that the percussion highlighted the second and fourth beats of the measure. The song was a legato sounding pop song that sounded like some of the songs on the top 40 radio stations. Background singers entered at about 0:58; they shocked me because I did not expect something like that in this song. About that time there was an interesting hollow sound that I enjoyed. I was…

On the night of Saturday, November 19, I attended the North Carolina Theatre production of Monty Python’s Spamalot. This was part of a five-night run at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, part of the Duke Energy Center complex. It was a cold, brisk night, and the warm glow from Memorial Auditorium beckoned to me to enter. The auditorium inside in the biggest concert space I have been to not called an arena. Walking in at the second floor, the auditorium spilled out in front of me, welcoming, with…