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As much many-sided phenomenon as punk aesthetics, the
Soviet beatnik style originated in the distant 70-s, when this definition was
applied to fancy decadents visiting bawdy places, wearing over the shoulder
long hair and leather jackets or collarless jackets a-la Beatles. This
definition also applied to musicians who were playing music to order in the soviet
restaurants and people out of any “leagues”
leading isolated and immoral in terms of the Soviet aestethics
lifestyle. By the early 80-s this tendency was aggravated by sloppy appearance,
obnoxious behavior and a required distinguishing attribute, be it a hat, or a
scarf or a colourful tie. In Leningrad the beatnik aesthetics was cultivated in
the circles of the New Artists and Necrorealists in the period of 1982-1984,
what resulted in appearance not only of a beatnik image - a rock-n-roll fan in
dark glasses - but of the art series dedicated to the beatniks. There were also
mock beatnik fashion shows and Evgeniy Yufit has created the whole aesthetics
of beatnik poses ranging from the “half-beatnik” to the total “assa”. In the mid
80-s after the thaw and liberalization of melomania emerged beatnik-style with
different aesthetics, but equally complex, combining “beatlemen” and renegades
from the collapsing hippie-system.
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