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Pronunciation: [bˈiːtnɪk] (IPA)

Beatnik, a term coined in the 1950s, originally referred to a group of American writers and artists who rejected mainstream culture and social norms. Nowadays, the term may have a negative connotation and is often associated with a certain aesthetic and lifestyle, such as wearing black clothes and berets, drinking coffee in cafes, being into jazz music, and embracing a nonconformist attitude. Various synonyms can be used to describe people who embrace Beat culture, including hipster, bohemian, avant-garde, nonconformists, rebels, or counterculturalists. These words share a commonality in the rejection of mainstream culture and the embracing of a nontraditional way of thinking and living.
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As usual, under stress, he'd dropped his beatnik patter.
"Black Man's Burden"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
Bey tried to imitate the other's beatnik patter.
"Black Man's Burden"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
Where'd you like to get socked, beatnik?
"Black Man's Burden"
Dallas McCord Reynolds

Famous quotes with Beatnik

  • I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
    Janis Joplin
  • It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
    Jack Kerouac
  • I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
    Charles Manson
  • It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
    Jack Kerouac
  • ...good American poets are surprisingly individual and independent; they have little of the member-of-the-Academy, official man-of-letters feel that English or continental poets often have. When American poets join literary political parties, doctrinaire groups with immutable principles, whose poems themselves are manifestoes, the poets are ruined by it. We see this in the beatniks, with their official theory that you write a poem by putting down anything that happens to come into your head; this iron spontaneity of theirs makes it impossible for even a talented beatnik to write a good poem except by accident, since it eliminates the selection, exclusion, and concentration that are an essential part of writing a poem. Besides, their poems are as direct as true works of art are indirect: ironically, these conscious social manifestoes of theirs, these bohemian public speeches, make it impossible for the artist’s unconscious to operate as it normally does in the process of producing a work of art.
    Randall Jarrell

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