History Bill Osgerby argues that: the counterculture's various strands developed from earlier artistic and political movements. On both sides of the Atlantic the 1950s "Beat Generation" had fused existentialist philosophy with jazz, poetry, literature, Eastern mysticism, and drugs—themes that were all sustained in the 1960s counterculture.Bill Osgerby, "Youth Culture" in Paul Addison and Harriet Jones, eds. A Companion to Contemporary Britain: 1939–2000 (2005) pp. 127–44, quote at p. 132.
History Bill Osgerby argues that: the counterculture's various strands developed from earlier artistic and political movements. On both sides of the Atlantic the 1950s "Beat Generation" had fused existentialist philosophy with jazz, poetry, literature, Eastern mysticism, and drugs—themes that were all sustained in the 1960s counterculture.Bill Osgerby, "Youth Culture" in Paul Addison and Harriet Jones, eds. A Companion to Contemporary Britain: 1939–2000 (2005) pp. 127–44 quote at p. 132.