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“Happy Daze” or “Happy Days” Life in the 1950s “Happy Daze” or “Happy Days” ?

Please respond to the following images. What do you see? What does the image communicate about the culture and its values? What type of life is promoted? What do you think about this life?

General Motors

Where do we live?

Kruschev V. Kennedy

Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev

Shelter?

The Beats “Beatniks” Where did they come from?

Origins 1930s -depression, disillusion 1940s-WWII- Atomic Bomb- US power, Cold War, McCarthy Era, 1950s- “Happy Daze” American prosperity, suburban boom! Text

The Core Group Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Le Roi Jones in NYC- Greenwich Village and Columbia University. San Francisco- Ferlingetti, Snyder

Where Were They? NYC, SF were the main hubs Cafes, Jazz Clubs, and North Beach, City Lights Bookstore World Travelers-always on the move- road trip was a key theme.

Influences Romantic/Transcendental Poets Eastern Philosphy-Buddhism, Hinduism, free love, drug use Communism/Socialism/Communalism Jazz “Bop” Bebop

Terms “Beats” coined by Kerouac Beatific, Beatitudes-blessed “Beatniks” coined by Herb Caen-Sputnik “Hipsters”

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