ISBN:
9780226152653
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9780226599069
Language:
English
Pages:
541 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dinerstein, Joel The Origins of Cool in Postwar America.
DDC:
306.0973/0904
Keywords:
Popular culture History 20th century
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Cool (The English word)
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Cool (The English word)
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Cool (The English word)
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Manners and customs
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Popular culture
;
Popular culture
;
United States
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United States
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History
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1900-1999
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United States Social life and customs 1945-1970
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USA
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Lebensstil
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Soziale Distanz
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Verweigerung
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Geschichte 1945-1965
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226453439.001.0001
