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Parent topics

• Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. ^[e]
• History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. ^[e]
• Music [r]: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm, harmonies and melodies. ^[e]
• Poetry [r]: A form of literary work which uses rhythm, metre, and sound elements (such as assonance or dissonance) to structure, amplify, and in some instances supplant the literal meanings of words. ^[e]

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• Beatnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hippie [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Social movement [r]: Contentious performances, public displays and advocacy campaigns by ordinary people to assert collective claims for attention, redress of grievances and change, and the voluntary associations, formal organizations and emergent institutions that coordinate and direct them. ^[e]
• Allen Ginsberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William S. Burroughs [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Kerouac [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gregory Corso [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Howl [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naked Lunch [r]: Add brief definition or description
• On the Road [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neal Cassady [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Herbert Huncke [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Peter Orlovsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Clellon Holmes [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gary Snyder [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Philip Whalen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lew Welch [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Harold Norse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kirby Doyle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael McClure [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bohemianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hedonism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surrealist [r]: Add brief definition or description
• San Francisco Renaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Black Mountain poets [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterculture of the 1960s [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lost generation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Popular culture [r]: Commercialised folk culture that exists for the masses; opposite of high culture. ^[e]
• Romanticism [r]: An approach to creativity which comprises such characteristics as intense emotion, a high value placed on individual experience, inspiration, energy, love of Nature, nationalist and anti-élitist sentiments, or the belief that not everything can be objectively analysed or described ^[e]
• Confessional poetry [r]: Poetry which expresses in intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about illness, sexuality, and despondence. ^[e]
• Cultural anthropology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Psychedelic drug [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Black Mountain College [r]: Add brief definition or description
• New York School [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Buddhism [r]: Spiritual tradition founded on the teachings of the Buddha. ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
• Jazz [r]: American-originated musical style, pioneered by black artists, and emphasizing improvisation. ^[e]
• Bebop [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rock music [r]: A form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass, usually with a strong back beat, which evolved from earlier rock and roll and rockabilly music styles. ^[e]
• Coffee [r]: One of the most popular and widely consumed beverages in the world today. ^[e]
• Marijuana [r]: Commonly used drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa or C. indica. ^[e]
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• Peyote [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heroin [r]: An organic chemical opioid drug derived from morphine. ^[e]
• Benzedrine [r]: Add brief definition or description