The origins of cool in postwar America
Joel Dinerstein.
Bok Engelsk 2017
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| Opplysninger | Prelude: Paris, 1949 -- Introduction: the origins of cool -- Lester Young and the birth of cool -- Humphrey Bogart and the birth of noir cool from the Great Depression -- Albert Camus and the birth of existential cool from the idea of rebellion (and the blues) -- Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir: toward a postwar cool for women -- Cool convergences, 1950: jazz, noir, existentialism -- A generational interlude: postwar II (1953-1963) and the shift in cool -- Kerouac and the cool mind: jazz and zen -- From noir cool to Vegas cool: swinging into prosperity with Frank Sinatra -- American rebel cool: Brando, Dean, Elvis -- Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis sound out cool individuality -- Hip versus cool in the Fugitive kind (1960) and Paris blues -- Lorraine Hansberry and the end of postwar cool -- Epilogue: the many lives of postwar cool.
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| ISBN | 9780226152653 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| ISBN(galt) | 9780226453439 (e-book)
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