Beatnik Culture

Beatnik is a term invented in 1958 by American journalist Herb Caen to parody the beat generation and his followers, just months after it was published Along the way, the novel-manifesto written by Jack Kerouac movement.

Emerge in the United States in the late 40s and whose members have come to be known as beatniks, is an important point of reference for understanding all subsequent social movements and intellectuals in the history of recent Western culture.