Essay On The Beatnik Riot
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In 1961, previous to the outbreak of Occupy Wall Streets of Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park was filled with three–thousand young beatnik protestors. Playing instruments and singing folk music symbolized the starvation that these young folks wanted of freedom and equality for America. Protestors demonstrated mixed cultures, individualistic beliefs that went against the status quo of America after the post-war years. The Beatnik Riot involved young traditional Americans fighting not just for the musical crisis of that time, but for the social, racial, and cultural segregations that were brought on by the years of war.
Acting as a catalytic reaction, the Beatnik Riot put in motion for a new modernized America. Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York was previously occupied by young protestors driven by anti-war and racial aspects. “In the spring of 1961, the Washington Square Association, a community group of homeowners around the square, appealed to New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation to do something about the hundreds of ‘roving troubadours and their followers’ playing music around the square’s turned off fountain on Sunday afternoons “ (Straughsbaugh 1). “The parks commission began issuing permits to limit the number of musicians, allowing them to ‘sing and play from two until five as long as they had no drums,’ Van Ronk writes” ( Straughsbaugh 1). Permitting the number of musicians provoked the traditionalist to become active protestors. The community around the square complained about the ruckus caused by these hippies, racial mixture, cultured young folks. In Greenwich Village an old historical dilemma was of the racial ideas having this heritage people were not in favor of t...
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Izzy Young was the organizer of the riot and the supervisor of Folklore Center. “In 1961, Izzy Young was running the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street. At the time it was the heart of the Greenwich Village folk scene” (51st 2). “Young was the guy who had applied for the permit to sing in Washington Square. And when it was rejected, he helped organize the protest” (Simon 2). Izzy attempted to construct a peaceful demonstration asking people’s right to sing.
The Beatnik Riot of 1961 characterized the young Americans of the United States that were fighting for their rights. The young radicals rebelled against the milquetoast population of America during this time. The riot conveyed that the beats were not only fighting for their right to sing, but for equality of sex and race. The Beatnik Riot started a domino effect of protests across the United States.
In this essay, the author
- Describes how the beatnik riot involved young traditional americans fighting for the social, racial, and cultural segregations brought on by the years of war.
- Analyzes how the beatnik riot catalyzed a new modernized america in greenwich village, new york.
- Explains that beatniks were not in the favorable hand of the american people. they rejected mainstream values and lived a spontaneous, free-wheeling life.
- Describes how the beatnik riot involved young traditional americans fighting for the social, racial, and cultural segregations brought on by the years of war.
- Analyzes how the beatnik riot catalyzed a new modernized america in greenwich village, new york.
- Explains that beatniks were not in the favorable hand of the american people. they rejected mainstream values and lived a spontaneous, free-wheeling life.
- Explains that the beatnik riot's culture was "cool". folklore expressed the traditional, nonconformist lifestyle, psychedelic drugs and anarchism.
- Describes how the beatnik riot was organized to protest the issuing of permits for musicians to play at washington square park.
- Explains that izzy young was the organizer of the riot and the supervisor of folklore center.
- Explains that the beatnik riot of 1961 characterized the young americans of the united states that were fighting for their rights.
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- Explains that america's youth was changing rapidly. the largest anti-war demonstration in history was held when 25,000 people marched from the capitol to the washington monument.
- Explains that hippies reflected a deep discontent with technocracy- society's reliance on scientific experts who ruled cold and dispassionately and wielded enormous power. they believed they could develop their vision in communes.
- Analyzes how counterculture groups rose to every debatable occasion, including the chicago seven, students for a democratic society, and the new left.
- Explains that the counterculture was formed through the growth of the new youth’s culture's open hostility to the values of middle-class society.
- Analyzes how marijuana captivated the counterculture. the older generation was outraged because marijuana was illegal and detrimental to the brain.
- Analyzes how nonconformists used music as a tool. rock'n'roll expressed teenage rebelliousness, bopped and grooved to dangerous sounds that worried older americans.
- Analyzes how the counterculture expanded as people chose sides or institutions corrupted the rebellion. television advertising catered towards radical young people who would do anything to show opposition to the establishment and old views.
- Analyzes how the counterculture was influenced by society and continues to influence society today.
- Cites the national museum of american history's lisa law: a visual journey, and neil a. hamilton, the 1960s counterculture in america.
1093 wordsRead More - Allen Ginsberg Howl Analysisanalytical essayPart one catalogues the actions and experiences of the Beatniks. This group of artists refused to conform to what was socially acceptable. Rather than live their lives in “little boxes,” as described by Malvina
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- Analyzes how allen ginsberg's poem "howl" is an exclamation of utter frustration, fueled by the individuality-shattering, conformity of his time.
- Analyzes how ginsberg's beatniks refused to conform to what was socially acceptable. they pursued individual expression and acted in a way that satisfied their own desires.
- Analyzes how ginsberg views the modern moloch as a type of machine, or system that contributes to the destruction of youth.
- Analyzes how allen ginsberg's poem "howl" is an exclamation of utter frustration, fueled by the individuality-shattering, conformity of his time.
- Analyzes how ginsberg's beatniks refused to conform to what was socially acceptable. they pursued individual expression and acted in a way that satisfied their own desires.
- Analyzes how ginsberg views the modern moloch as a type of machine, or system that contributes to the destruction of youth.
- Analyzes ginsberg's direct message to carl solomon, one of his acquaintances from the psychiatric institute of columbia presbyterian hospital.
- Analyzes how ginsberg's "howl" is an expression of disgust towards the destruction of his fellow, beautiful minds, by the suppressive society of the mid-twentieth century.
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