Explain the Beat Movement and what it meant.

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. It was also called Beat Generation, American social and literary movement originating in the 1950s and centred in the bohemian artist communities of San Francisco's North Beach, Los Angeles' Venice West, and New York City's Greenwich Village.

The Beat Generation was a group of American writers, producers, and artists who experimented with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, interest within the Eastern religious culture, rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of means of expression.