THE WORD “BEAT” can connote violence or beauty, rhythm or rage, action
or entity, energy or lassitude, enthusiasm or ennui, despair or
enlightenment. One thing is for certain: it was a great name for a
generation. From the day the/New York Times/published John Clellon
Holmes’s foundational article “This Is the Beat Generation
<https://www.nytimes.com/1952/11/16/archives/this-is-the-beat-generation-despite-its-excesses-a-contemporary.html>,”
in which he proclaimed that “the meaning is all too clear to most
Americans,” the term echoed out into the postwar public sphere as a
floating signifier, reverberating across the nation, accruing signifieds
as it spread. Now indelibly sedimented into our historical memory, the
scale and scope of its significance continues to spark debate. Who and
what should we call Beat, and how do we set the historical parameters of
the Beat Generation’s emergence and decline?
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/beats-and-all/
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