Beatnik (disambiguation)
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Beatnik can mean:
- BeatnikBeatnikBeatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical...
, a distortion of the Beat GenerationBeat generationThe Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
into a media stereotype - Beatnik, an esoteric computer programming languageEsoteric programming languageAn esoteric programming language is a programming language designed as a test of the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, or as a joke...
- Beatnik Inc., a technology company specializing in mobile phone audio file formats (at one time associated with musician Thomas DolbyThomas DolbyThomas Dolby is an English musician and producer. Best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!", he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician.-Early life:Dolby was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s...
) - Beatnik satellite, a Sputnik-99 satellite launch aborted by Swatch in 1999
- Beatniks (novel)Beatniks (novel)Beatniks: An English Road Movie is a novel by British author Toby Litt set in Bedford in The United Kingdom in 1995, and concerns the adventures of a group of young people who admire the Beat Writers and Musicians of the 1950s and 1960s America...
, a novel by British author Toby Litt, published in 1997 - Los Beatniks, Argentine rock garage group