Contents
Introduction………………………………………………………………1
1.The common historical background……………………………………1
1.1 International………………………………………………………1
1.2 National…………………………………………………………1
2.The common beliefs of beats and rockers……………………………2
2.1 Rebellion against conventions……………………………………2
2.1.1 Beats in literature………………………………………………2
2.1.2 Rockers in music circles………………………………………3
2.2 Ideologies in between……………………………………………4
2.2.1 Beatniks were fed up with their government about
the explanations of why things happened……………………4
2.2.2 Their same destiny……………………………………………4
2.2.3 Beat culture and rock culture were not accepted by
both capitalist and socialist ideologies………………………5
2.3 Belief in oriental religion…………………………………………5
2.3.1 Beatniks study on Chinese Buddhism…………………………6
2.3.2 Rockers belief in Indian Buddhism……………………………6
3.Their identical lifestyles………………………………………………6
3.1 Bohemian…………………………………………………………7
3.1.1 Beats…………………………………………………………7
3.1.2 Rockers………………………………………………………7
3.2 Madness…………………………………………………………8
3.2.1 The beats regarded modern American life as cruel, selfish,
and impersonal that writers and artists were being driven
to madness……………………………………………………8
3.2.2 Rockers were mad enough to drive rockniks crazy on
rock circus spot………………………………………………9
3.3 Self-indulgent……………………………………………………9
3.3.1 Drugs…………………………………………………………9
3.3.2 Homosexual…………………………………………………10
4. The same conduct……………………………………………………10
4.1 Beats of Satan and angles………………………………………10
4.2 Rockers' conduct of the two sides………………………………11
Conclusion………………………………………………………………13