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The 1950s and 1960s: Open and Hidden Relations

1995; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 20; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0361233300006177

1573-9090

Paul Buhle,

American Political and Social Dynamics

The usual stories of 1950s influence upon the 1960s have now been retold, and so often as the autobiography of a generation, that they may be said to have achieved emblematic textbook status. The Beats, with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl , are said to have reopened a closed culture of McCarthyism; and rock ‘n’ roll, if it did not actually save the souls of the teen participants, prepared them for the multiracial youth culture dreams of the following era.