beat generation meaning

• Noun: beat generation
  1. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favoured modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
     - beats, beatniks

  Type of: youth subculture

  Encyclopedia: Beat generation

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Examples

1. Members included Beat Generation hero Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs, drugs.
2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti called him " the Thoreau of the Beat Generation ."
3. The album makes several references to the writings of the Beat Generation:
4. The Beat Generation are a regular subject in Silberman's writings.
5. He was celebrated by Beat Generation poets and late-1960s flower children.