The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein (2017)
While today expressions like “cool,” “being cool,” “acting cool” or having a “cool” outlook on life are present almost anywhere
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Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff (2017)
That the lifestyle of (mostly) African American jazz artists, unusual creativity and strange hours somehow went together for some decades,
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