http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/beat-generation Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:58:30 -0400 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:58:30 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1351/the-life-and-death-of-the-hippie-a-dance-with-the-devil-and-the-media By Sarah E. Forman - The media has always had a strong propensity to influence our opinions and behaviors, creating and destroying public images for hundreds of years. For many, the media is seen as a representation of reality, an interpretation and understanding of cultures, sub-cultures, issues and ideas, however, this is no longer an acceptable approach for engaging with and evaluating what we now know to be such a powerful aspect of our society. It is not merely commentary, but in many cases, the media plays an active role in the construction, and at times deconstruction, of political and social issues, which... Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:25 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1351/the-life-and-death-of-the-hippie-a-dance-with-the-devil-and-the-media http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/51/telepathic-shock-and-the-rush-of-it-all-jack-kerouacs-use-of-language-in-on-the-road By Greg Pavlisko - Much of the “feeling” Kerouac was looking to produce came from the influence of the emerging bebop scene. The more experimentally inclined improvisers like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie shook loose the singular measure and diatonic development of the standard jazz ballad. Kerouac reveled in bebop and the way it made him feel and sought to bring that into his writing, “Kerouac introduces constant fluctuations of line speed over pulse with repeated syllables and disjunctive punctuation, akin to the way that a jazz soloist trips himself up to defy prediction” (Hrebeniak... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/51/telepathic-shock-and-the-rush-of-it-all-jack-kerouacs-use-of-language-in-on-the-road