AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Baby Boomers, List Of English Words Of Yiddish Origin, Intellectual Capital
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Spectrum of beats: beatific kerouac, ginsberg, snyder buddhism . Alcohol/pot/speed hippies: socially conscious ferlinghetti, mcclure atheism/pot hippies, kamikaze cassady nihilism alcohol/pot/speed hippies, angry corso communism alcohol/pot student activists, down burroughs, huncke hedonism heroin punks. Nik : soviet union"s manmade satellite sputnik, yiddish meaning diminutive (nudnik: pest) Beats became caricatures of themselves: rent-a-beatnik ( for parties) Post war context: procreation ethic: preferable to marry than to be single, preferable to be a parent, preferable to have more than one child. Results: baby boom generation (1946-64: 1945-1946: birth rate jumped 19%, 1946-1947: birth rate jumped 12, 1948-1954: more babies born than had been during the previous 30 years. 3. of our population was born between 1946 and 1964. Electric guitar: changed music but also how we look at performance (bigger audience, loud, cheap, portable, plentiful, mobile, conspicuous excess. The pill: no fear of unwanted pregnancy, women controlled their bodies, new perspectives on the family, changed landscapes of sexual relationships.
