The postwar era was a time where the dominant culture was desperate for a reassuring planned order; but there was a strong intellectual undercurrent calling for spontaneity, an end to psychological repression; a romantic desire for a more chaotic, Dionysian existence.
The beats were a manifestation of this undercurrent...
"This is the jazzy story of a hip, saxophone playing cat who heads to the big city to seek fame and fortune. Once there, he finds that the top dogs own the cool clubs, and that sometimes you have to work at the Doggie Diner to make ends meet.
But he also learns how important it is to ''do what you love to do and do it well!' "
--Hip Cat, by Johnathan London
Read more here on how the dominant culture transmuted the threat of a subversive counterculture into an amusing symbol of the signifier... Rant
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