Grasping for V. Group Read: Black levis and black suede w sneakers

[Ian Livingston]

I wasn't there, but I've been told there was a significant difference
between the beats and the beatniks. Sort of like the turn from hippie
to yippie, I suppose.  The beatniks represented a sort of pastiche of
beatness. They spouted a jargon of their own, however, and did not dig
the turn toward the new sort of psychological and spiritual pursuit
the beats espoused. They were more like just kids riding a fad,
whereas the beats were seriously rejecting what had gone before: a
nihilistic reaction to the advent of WWII and the ethnocentric
cultures that produced something so horrific. The bomb was a factor,
but the repressed angst of the following decades had not yet bit in to
result in the Muchos of the early 60s and Zoyds of the 70s. Beatniks
were pop culture, the beats represented a rejection of the
contemporary culture of their period. James Dean portrayed the beats,
Bob Denver did beatnik bop.

Kerouac on the difference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2aOSoRsoE&feature=related


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jeans have always been navy......but blue not black, which was a less widely worn color then.
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> wikiepedia
> Jeans (known as dungarees by then), along with light-blue stenciled cambric shirts, became part of the official working uniform of the United States Navy in the 20th century prior to being replaced by the coveralls, utilities and, more recently, the blue and gray digital-camouflaged navy working uniform.
> After James Dean popularized them in the movie, Rebel Without a Cause, wearing jeans by teenagers and young adults became a symbol of youth rebellion during the 1950s. Because of this they were often barred in certain public places.
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> And in another book at Google Book Search about men's masculinity in popular culture, the John Wayne look----see Benny's big cowboy hat---was
> widespread as signifier
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> Benny dresses the beat look......"Beat is back" was this tagline:
> ... Mead "The two young men in the black berets, black turtlenecks, black jeans, ....
>  By the end of the fifties, however, the beats and their followers had"...
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> ----------with suede over leather...(cooler?..and a step up? He is getting a steady paycheck. I associate
> with musicians more than...uh.... beatniks. (what a word since Dobie Gillis, eh?)  And all undercut---showing
> immaturity?---by Benny's sneakers?
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> I, personally, love how Mr. Lasgana  Layer-on of allegorical meaning, also gets this On The Road, Updike, Bellow stuff right too.
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