The Beatnik emulation of bop culture was highly romanticized and at worst perpetuated the dangerous white myth of black hyper ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame puts it this way: "They literally stood the world of pop culture on its head ... upset by the boys' long hairstyles and beatnik attitudes. The fans win: on April ...

Fritz Wetherbee, beatnik. I was a self-professed beatnik in the early 60s. I played the coffee houses in New York, wrote all this poetry. It was a kind of slam poetry that I wrote. I was early on ...