1950s outsider-youth phenom the Beats were perhaps the most misunderstood cultural scab on American cultures malnourished body. The originating practitioners listened not to jazz or folk but, rather, classical music and were staunchly all about bleak depressive ennui -- they were 'beat' as in exhausted, tapped out, burnt -- yet the prevailing erroneous popular depiction and understanding of the scene centered on a some, dopey mythic carefree proto-hippy. The rage and... More >>>