The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
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Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226152650
ISBN13:9780226152653
Release Date:May 2017
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:541 Pages
Weight:2.28 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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