Sonic counterculture: when the beat generation chanted hare krishna to scare the WASP spirit away
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.183395Keywords:
Counterculture, North America, Hare Krishna, Gurus, MantrasAbstract
We analyzed the American society of the 1950s-70s as influenced and reverberated by an accentuated and unquestionable indomania. Along with such indomania, there were religions, intellectuals, alternative movements, and gurus – among which Swami Prabhupada, the founder and propagator of Hare Krishna movement, stood out – who were seen as havens in the eyes of restless young people (college students from Columbia, Berkeley, Stanford and San Francisco) that promoted the beat generation. Such young people rejected Protestant ways of acting and seeing the world, as well as a whole voracious capitalist system that grew around them, seeking mystical (exogenous or native) and oriental means and reversals against the bourgeois and lobotomized social conformities prevailing in the America. Finally, they discovered that the sound of the mantras and all the vibration that it could provide perfectly resonated all the enchantment they needed.
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