The origins of cool in postwar America. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joel Dinerstein.
• Authors: Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-
• Contents: Prelude: Paris, 1949 Introduction: The Origins of Cool 1 Lester Young and the Birth of Cool 2 Humphrey Bogart and the Birth of Noir Cool from the Great Depression 3 Albert Camus and the Birth of Existential Cool from the Idea of Rebellion (and the Blues) 4 Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir: Toward a Postwar Cool for Women 5 Cool Convergences, 1950: Jazz, Noir, Existentialism A Generational Interlude: Postwar II (1953–1963) and the Shift in Cool 6 Kerouac and the Cool Mind: Jazz and Zen 7 From Noir Cool to Vegas Cool: Swinging into Prosperity with Frank Sinatra 8 American Rebel Cool: Brando, Dean, Elvis 9 Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis Sound out Cool Individuality 10 Hip versus Cool in The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Paris Blues (1962) 11 Lorraine Hansberry and the End of Postwar Cool Epilogue: The Many Lives of Postwar Cool Acknowledgments Notes Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.09730904; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cool (The English word); United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226453439
• Related ISBNs: 9780226152653
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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