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The opening line of J.P. Hartleys Edwardian based novel The Go Between begins with the words, The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. I was mindful of that quotation when I recently spotted a link to a Jazz, culture and poetry blog. The link was named LikeDreamsville. My first thoughts were of the Mancini composition as played by Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino – all evocative renditions of the oh-so-slow groove anthem of that name.
As it turned out the site was not about the song but something altogether more ephemeral the strange world of the s Beatnik. That term ‘Beatnik’ has been so successfully parodied that it can never appear less than corny and the establishment of the time delighted in making it so. As a quasi-cultural movement it looked lame and contrived and so it was meant to look.
It portrayed the apparent boredom and ingratitude of American youth. A youth in the process of rejecting the ultra-materialistic values of their elders and betters. I suspect that the term Beatnik was eventually allowed to die of embarrassment, as nothing kills a movement quicker than being absorbed into the popu
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