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    Birth Of The Cool

    By Lewis MacAdams

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    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 Willam S. Burrough's frenetic experiences on the road to the Black Mountain School of Zen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781471105098
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    Lewis MacAdams

    Lewis MacAdams is the author of ten books of poetry, a film documentarian (What Happened to Kerouac?, Eric Bogosian's FunHouse, and the Battle of the Bards), and an award-winning writer for Rolling Stone, Actuel, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and L.A. Weekly, among others.

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