The beat movement also known as the Beat Generation was a social and literary movement beginning in the 1950s and centered in the artist communities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. Its self styled beat expressed their separation from the conventional society by adopting a “hip” vocabulary borrowed from jazz musicians. These poets promoted purification and illumination that may be provoked by drugs, jazz, and sex. Beat poets wanted to unshackle poetry from academic preciosity and bring it “back to the streets.” Ginsberg and other major figures of the movement supported an unstructured work of art in which the writer put down his thoughts and feelings without revision to express the immediacy of experience. By about 1960, when the movement had begun to fade, it had produced a number of interesting and promising writers. It paved the way for acceptance of other unorthodox and ignored writers.