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The Beats movement , also called the Beat Generation was initiated in the 1950's. This movement revolved around the Bohemian artist communities of San Francisco's North Beach , New York City's Greenwich Village and Los Angeles' Venice West. The followers to this movement used their own self made beat to their poem, beat referred to a musical sense. The poets adapted "hip" vocabulary from the jazz musicians in that time period . Poets also included drugs ' jazz and sex as bases for their works of literature. Gregory Corso , Philip Whalen and Gary Syder were many of the well known Beats Movement poets .