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Birth of the cool (Paperback)
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Birth of the cool (Paperback)
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A stunningly illustrated cultural history of the American
underground in the forties and fifties and of the artists at its
core - Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, William Burroughs, Jackson
Pollock, and more. The idea of 'cool' is one of the most pervasive
forces in modern culture - but what is it? Where does it come from?
Who invented it? Birth of the Cool is the first serious examination
of how cool came about - its meaning, its heroes and its place in
the world, from the gritty avant-garde fringes of the culture in
after-hours joints in Harlem and cold water flats on the Lower East
Side, to the centre of the mainstream. Focusing on New York from
1948 to 1965 and bringing together the era's most evocative black
and white photographs, Lewis MacAdams takes us from the jazz joints
where Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker invented bebop to Jackson
Pollock's studio; from William S. Burrough's frenetic experiences
on the road to the Black Mountain School of Zen.
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