The Beat philosophy was generally countercultural and antimaterialistic and it stressed the importance of bettering one's inner self over and above material possessions.

The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised.

The female contemporaries of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs were intimately involved in the creation of Beat philosophy and literature, and yet remain markedly absent from the mainstream interpretation of the most important aspects and figures of the movement.

The term Beat referred, all at the same time, to the countercultural rhythm of the Jazz scene, to a sense of rebellion regarding the conservative stress of post-war society, and to an interest in new forms of spiritual experience through drugs, alcohol, philosophy, and religion, and specifically through Zen Buddhism.

Indeed, he did contribute to Declaration, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the philosophy, and a chapter of his novel, Hurry on Down, was excerpted in a popular paperback sampler, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.

Although his philosophy on life was especially influential to Burroughs, who associated with similar characters in his early adulthood and mirrored the style of You Can't Win with his first published book, Junkie, Black's writings also had a profound effect on the writings and lives of all the Beat Generation.

* Fried ( band ), a band made up of U. S. soul singer Jonte Short and ex-The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals guitarist David Steele

Beat music seems to have had little to do with the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s, and more to do with driving rhythms, which the bands had adopted from their rock and roll, rhythm and blues and soul music influences.

Christian cited the popularity of regular revivals of Twisted Wheel soul all-nighters at the original venue ( in Whitworth Street, Manchester ) plus the Beat Boutique northern soul all-nighters at the Ruby Lounge and MMUnion in Manchester.

In the late 1960s, when some mods started to embrace freakbeat and psychedelic rock, other mods-especially those in northern England-stuck to the original mod soundtrack of soul and Blue Beat.

Robey started a subsidiary, Back Beat Records, in 1957 and this later specialised in soul music.

Back Beat Records was the soul sub-label of Duke Records started in 1957.

Wicked Beat Sound System is a Sydney based group whose sound is best described as a mixture of electronica, dub and soul.

In contrast, the Beat poets, who included such figures as Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Gregory Corso ( 1930 – 2001 ), Joanne Kyger ( born 1934 ), Gary Snyder ( born 1930 ), Diane Di Prima ( born 1934 ), Amiri Baraka ( born 1934 ) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( born 1919 ), were distinctly raw. Reflecting, sometimes in an extreme form, the more open, relaxed and searching society of the 1950s and 1960s, the Beats pushed the boundaries of the American idiom in the direction of demotic speech perhaps further than any other group.

Many writers from and associated with the Beat Generation were influenced greatly by Surrealists.

Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.

The hippies inherited various countercultural views and practices regarding sex and love from the Beat Generation ; " their writings influenced the hippies to open up when it came to sex, and to experiment without guilt or jealousy.

The impressionistic and concise nature of his verse influenced particularly Ezra Pound and the Imagists, and later the poets of the Beat Generation.

Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by Jack Kerouac, jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, which was spoken by Harvey Keitel.

Linton Kwesi Johnson, British Black activist and a protagonist of " Dub Poetry " was largely influenced by the writings of Fanon, as evidenced by several of the lyrics on Johnson's album Dread Beat an ' Blood.

Imagism influenced a number of poetry circles and movements in the 1950s, especially the Beat generation, the Black Mountain poets, and others associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.

According to Kramer, the MC5 of this period was politically influenced by the Marxism of the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton, and poets of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders, or Modernist's poets like Charles Olson.

A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden While many authors claim to be directly influenced by the Beats, the Beat Generation phenomenon itself has had a pervasive influence on Western culture more broadly.

* The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll as a high art form, as evidenced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and other popular musicians influenced in the later fifties and sixties by Beat generation poets ' and writers ' works.

Her poetry is influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation.

As a result Beat bands were heavily influenced by American groups of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets ( from which group The Beatles gained the model for their name, combining it with a pun on the beat in their music ), and to a lesser extent by British rock and roll groups such as The Shadows.

Like any other musical artist, Dylan was influenced by other radical groups such as the Wobblies-the popular group of the thirties and forties, the Beat Anarchists of the fifties, and above all, by the political beliefs of young people during the civil rights movement.

Many in the blossoming underground movement were influenced by 1950s Beatnik Beat generation writers such as William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who paved the way for the hippies of the 1960s.

Buckley's unique stage persona never found more than a cult audience during his life, but anticipated aspects of the Beat Generation sensibility, and influenced figures as various as Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, George Harrison, Tom Waits and Dizzy Gillespie.

The Liverpool Poets are a number of influential 1960s poets from Liverpool, England, influenced by 1950s Beat poetry.

On New Years Day, 1962, Decca, looking for a Beat group, auditioned two promising young bands: Brian Poole and the Tremeloes and a somewhat similar combo ( also heavily influenced by Buddy Holly ) from Liverpool called The Beatles.

His musical career began with The Vagrants, an R & B / Blue-eyed soul-rock band influenced by the likes of The Rascals that was one of the few teenage garage rock acts to come out of the New York metropolitan area itself ( as opposed to the Bohemian Greenwich Village scene of artists, poets and affiliates of the Beat Generation, which produced bands like The Fugs and The Velvet Underground ).

Royston Ellis ( born 10 February 1941, Pinner, England ) is a British writer heavily influenced by the American Beat Generation.

It is wrong to suggest that the movement was influenced by the Beat Generation, since Ginsberg did not visit Malay until April 1963, when he came to Patna.

According to Dr. Shankar Bhattacharya, Dean at Assam University, as well as Aryanil Mukherjee, editor of Kaurab Literary Periodical, the movement influenced Allen Ginsberg as much as it influenced American poetry through the Beat poets who visited Calcutta, Patna and Benares during the 1960s decade.

Gilmore emerged as a writer from the Beat Generation in the 60s, influenced by Jack Kerouac and befriended by cult author William S. Burroughs.

They are influenced by bands such as The Skatalites, Laurel Aitken, Madness, The Specials, and The English Beat.

" Grove Music Online also states that "... in the early 1960s term ‘ pop music ’ competed terminologically with Beat music England, while in the USA its coverage overlapped ( as it still does ) with that of ‘ rock and roll ’.

* Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s

Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s to mid 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

Since 1958, the terms Beat Generation and Beat have been used to describe the antimaterialistic literary movement that began with Kerouac in the 1940s, stretching on into the 1960s.

In the network's infancy, GSN regularly showcased vintage Goodson-Todman game and panel shows from the 1950s and 1960s, many of which were either originally broadcast or only preserved in black-and-white – such as What's My Line ?, I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, and others.

* The Beat Generation, a popular American cultural movement that most social scholars say laid the foundation of the pro-active American counterculture of the 1960s.

In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the Hippie counterculture.

During the 1960s, aspects of the Beat movement metamorphosed into the counterculture of the 1960s, accompanied by a shift in terminology from " beatnik " to " hippie ".

Among the emerging novelists of the 1960s and 1970s, a few were closely connected with Beat writers, most notably Ken Kesey ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ).

* Dinos Dimatatis, Get That Beat: To Elliniko Rock, 1960s – 1970s.

Neal Leon Cassady ( February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968 ) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s.

She was the host of the March 2007 PBS fundraising special My Music: The British Beat, an overview of the musical British invasion of the United States during the 1960s, followed by a number of concert dates throughout the U. S., the U. K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

In the early 1960s orchestra leader Bert Kaempfert signed unknowns Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers-who would later become famous as The Beatles-to Polydor.

The Beat writers Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso followed in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.

Poet Allen Ginsberg bought a farm there in the 1960s, and the town became a haven and destination point for many of the major personalities of the Beat scene: William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harry Smith, Mary Beach, Claude Pelieu and many others all spent time either living or visiting there.

His work, with its overt humour, poignant reflections on contemporary urban life, and interest in the mistakes of the imagination, reveals an affinity with Frank O ' Hara, John Ashbery and the New York School of the 1950s, as well as the Beat writers of the 1960s -- Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti most obviously.

The Kingsmen is a 1960s Beat / garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States.

* The 1982 album Special Beat Service by English Ska / New Wave band The Beat used BEA's iconic 1960s " Red Square " livery as the design theme for the album jacket and promotional materials.

In the twentieth century United States, the bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation ( exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ), the much more widespread 1960s counterculture, and 1970s hippies.

On January 14, 1967, McClure read at the epochal Human Be-In event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and transcended his Beat label to become an important member of the 1960s Hippie counterculture.