{"id":183,"date":"2019-10-10T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:56:28","slug":"beats-and-the-counterculture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/home\/beats-and-the-counterculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Beats and the Counterculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1960s counterculture, with its celebration of lived experience, psychic  exploration, and bodily expression, was an outgrowth of the Beat sensibility. Sociologist Theodore Roszak coined the term \u201ccounter culture\u201d in 1969 and called Ginsberg\u2019s <em>Howl<\/em> \u201ca founding document of the counter culture.\u201d For Roszak, youth culture of the sixties was a rejection of \u201ctechnocracy\u201d\u2014the estrangement of the individual from the adventure, splendor, and visionary possibilities of life. Ginsberg\u2019s \u201cMoloch,\u201d the dehumanizing and soulless monster representing the machinery of mainstream society in <em>Howl<\/em>, leads directly to Ken Kesey\u2019s \u201cCombine\u201d\u2014the malevolent force of social control in <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em>. To overcome such oppression, Roszak argued, there needed to be a \u201crevolution in consciousness,\u201d a notion linking the Beats and the \u201ctuned-in\u201d hippie generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beat aesthetics of liberation and ecstasy strongly inspired rock music culture of the 1960s, and a number of the Beat poets and artists had close connections to rock musicians. In their anti-authoritarian attitudes, the Beats also helped set the stage for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s, and many of the Beats and their followers were active in antiwar and other protest movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1960s counterculture, with its celebration of lived experience, psychic exploration, and bodily expression, was an outgrowth of the Beat sensibility. Sociologist Theodore Roszak coined the term \u201ccounter culture\u201d in 1969 and called Ginsberg\u2019s Howl \u201ca founding document of the counter culture.\u201d For Roszak, youth culture of the sixties was a rejection of \u201ctechnocracy\u201d\u2014the estrangement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions\/1143"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}