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Contents

Introduction………………………………………………………………1

1.The common historical background……………………………………1

1.1 International………………………………………………………1

1.2 National…………………………………………………………1

2.The common beliefs of beats and rockers……………………………2

2.1 Rebellion against conventions……………………………………2

2.1.1 Beats in literature………………………………………………2

2.1.2 Rockers in music circles………………………………………3

2.2 Ideologies in between……………………………………………4

2.2.1 Beatniks were fed up with their government about

the explanations of why things happened……………………4

2.2.2 Their same destiny……………………………………………4

2.2.3 Beat culture and rock culture were not accepted by

both capitalist and socialist ideologies………………………5

2.3 Belief in oriental religion…………………………………………5

2.3.1 Beatniks study on Chinese Buddhism…………………………6

2.3.2 Rockers belief in Indian Buddhism……………………………6

3.Their identical lifestyles………………………………………………6

3.1 Bohemian…………………………………………………………7

3.1.1 Beats…………………………………………………………7

3.1.2 Rockers………………………………………………………7

3.2 Madness…………………………………………………………8

3.2.1 The beats regarded modern American life as cruel selfish

and impersonal that writers and artists were being driven

to madness……………………………………………………8

3.2.2 Rockers were mad enough to drive rockniks crazy on

rock circus spot………………………………………………9

3.3 Self-indulgent……………………………………………………9

3.3.1 Drugs…………………………………………………………9

3.3.2 Homosexual…………………………………………………10

4. The same conduct……………………………………………………10

4.1 Beats of Satan and angles………………………………………10

4.2 Rockers conduct of the two sides………………………………11

Conclusion………………………………………………………………13