The Roaring Twenties were also known as the Jazz Age. Although jazz had been around for decades prior to this, with the advent of Prohibition and the creation of speakeasies which both served alcohol and often provided a place to dance to music, jazz became much more mainstream, at least amongst the younger set. The more established tended to denigrate jazz and the effect it was having on the youth of that time.
Although the term “beatnik” originated in the 1950s and was used then and in the early 60s, it wasn’t an actual subculture but instead a somewhat derogatory and superficial media stereotype of an actual one, the Beat Generation.
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