THE WORLD PREMIERE of Beatsville, a musical set in the late 1950s in the world of Greenwich Village
beatniks, takes place May 6-28 at Asolo Rep.
Exploring the sense of belonging that comes from being part of a movement-rebels,
beatniks, an Elvis Fan club-embellished with individuality.
They sound a bit like an Ian McKaye supergroup (a cross between Minor Threat and Fugazi) but even more industrial leanings, like Shellac or the
Beatniks or something.
Inside Llewyn Davis Cert 15 GET down with the
beatniks of New York's Greenwich Village in this gloomy and reverential tale of 60s folk singers.
Ever since the war, the communist fronts and the
beatniks and the eggheads have conducted a national chorus of denunciation of this wicked nationalism.
Not surprisingly, the film that eventually resulted is called "Under the Boardwalk: A Ukulele Love Story." The movie will be screened at
Beatniks, 433 Park Ave., Worcester, April 26.
Even the "artsier" political music of this genre is intended to serve as a voice for some mass of people somewhere, whether the group is Dylan's
beatniks or Green Day's angry teenagers.
He describes the origins of the beat generation during World War II, how the beats turned into
beatniks, the emergence of a
beatnik voice, and the spread of the phenomenon from Manhattan to the US and the world.
Ginsberg and the
Beatniks were cliquish, self-promotional and, for the most part, ended up moneyed and bourgeois.
You could hire one poetry-reading
Beatnik for half-an-hour at EUR15, EUR200 got you three
beatniks playing bongos and guitars.
Who knows the course of history had the young
beatniks met and fallen in love under the influence of John, Paul, George and Ringo?
While rebels do exist, BIKER covers both types of groups, packs in plenty of photos, and covers all kinds of details of motorcycle culture, from movies and magazines to stunt riders and
beatniks.
beatniks - a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)