The Beat Generation

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fact though, “the only major beat figure not strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.4” Jack Kerouac, who had wrote the great novel, On The Road, contained great reference to jazz. It contained the idea of spontaneous prose which Kerouac thought of while listening to jazz. Spontaneous prose was “the style of being true to one’s beliefs and idealism’s”, and this reflected the beat’s movement and spontaniety.
Jazz was definitely an essential for the beats in . Jazz was a form of music created by African Americans. It was a mix of American and African music. Jazz had big attractions and influences on the Beats. Jazz could easily give the beats kicks because they were both considered to be minority, or esoteric, to the society. They also shared similar feelings toward themselves and there way of life. Another similarity that the Beats and jazz musicians had was the word “beat” itself. “The word “beat” was primarily in use after World War II by jazz musicians and hustlers as ...

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Spontaneous prose was one of the biggest derivatives of jazz and it became a integral classification of Beat literature.

Many poems written by the beats would be recited along with the accompaniment of jazz music at such cities as San Francisco in popular jazz clubs. With all of this influence, there were very few beats that were in fact jazz musicians themselves. There were however, interactions between the talents of the two different worlds. Jazz, in all, had a major influence of the writers of the Beat Generation.

The belief in Buddhism was another heavy influence on the Beat Generation. It It was mainly the religion of the beats which was originally an ancient ...

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