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

2 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?

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5 General Motors

6 Where do we live?

7 Kruschev V. Kennedy

8 Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev

9 Shelter?

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11 The Beats “Beatniks” Where did they come from?

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

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

14 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.

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

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

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