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Nonconformists prepare the terrain

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Nonconformists prepare the terrain The 1950s

An Atomic Age

The Cold War and Red Scares

Affluence and Suburbia

Family

An American Century  American military and economic power  ‘Americanisation’ fear from earlier in century. Shared by conservatives and left  Antiamericanism in Europe  Culture: film, music, literature and television  Global cultures and the local (McKay)

The teenager

Elvis and Rock and Roll

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An existential age?  Intellectual disillusion  Atomic age and cold war, mass society and holocaust. Jewish writing (US Bellow, Roth, Malamud etc)  Disruption of Europe  John Paul Sartre ‘Nausea’ (1938) and existentialism.

Albert Camus  ‘The modern mind is in complete disarray’ (notebook, early 1940s)  ‘L’etranger (The Outsider/The Stranger) (1942)  ‘The Plague’ (1947)

Existentialism and culture  Sinatra ‘In the Wee Small hours’ (1955)  ‘Only the Lonely’ (1958)  Sloan Wilson ‘The man in the grey flannel suit’ (1955)  ‘High Noon’ (1952)  Fellini and ‘La Dolce Vita’ (1960)  Antonioni ‘L’Avventura (1960) 1 st of trilogy

The Blue Moment  Jazz as modernity, global, improvised  Miles Davis and ‘The Birth of the Cool’  Davis to Paris in 1949 (first trip abroad)  Affair with Juliette Greco  The Parisian Imaginary  Return to drug addiction  ‘Kind of Blue’ (1959)

Abstract Expressionism Rothko ‘untitled’ (1959)

Jackson Pollock Blue Poles (1952)

The Beat Generation  ‘Spontaneous bop prosody’  Jazz and the beats (Charlie Parker)  Buddhism, alcohol and the old America? (Different views)  Ginsberg, ‘Howl’ (1956)  Kerouac, ‘On the Road’ (1957)  Burroughs, ‘Naked Lunch’ (Olympia Press, Paris, in US)  The Beat subculture emerges in University towns and cities. Goatees, berets, cool and bohemia. ‘Hipsters’  Norman Mailer, ‘The White Negro’ (1957)

Politics  McCarthyism silences the left  Anticommunism in Europe  Antiamericanism in Europe  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Fd after J.B. Priestley article ‘Britain and the bomb’ in the New Statesman (2 Nov 1957)  Aldermaston march, April  Civil Rights struggle in the United States.

Conclusion  ‘The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not a true “I”. His main business is to find his way back to himself.’ (Colin Wilson, ‘The Outsider’)  Brando in ‘The Wild One’ (1956) when asked what he is rebelling against, answers ‘What have you got?’  Teenagers, artists, writers and musicians reflect the crisis of modernity. This is politicised in the 1960s.