The Fifties
Season 1 • Episode 5: The Beat • Watch with subtitles
Episode 5: The Beat
December 28, 1997
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Elvis. Conformity is questioned and homogenized America begins to differentiate. The teenager as a class is born. Popular music is forever changed by the advent of Rock n Roll. Beat poets push our boundaries and America begins to question everything.
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