The Beat Generation - A Short Film Expedition Into a Literate Heart of Starkness That Threw a Crucial Curve Into the American Enlightenment Zone During The Feverish 1950's - With Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac- From the CD ROM, "The Beat Generation"
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Summary: Louis Armstrong suggested that “If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.” I imagine that the same could be said of a Beat Generation that contributed a wealth of poetry, film, music and art to a Country reeling from War and McCarthyism back in the doom day of the barbarous blacklist.