Birth of the Cool by MacAdams, Lewis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Description Praise Author Bio Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Preface

A Cooler World The Essence of Cool A Cool Revolution The Capital of the World

Chapter 1: The Uncoolest Thing in the World

“Bird Was Bebop’s Spirit . . . “ . . . Dizzy Was its Head and its Hands” Minton’s University of Bebop Groovin’ High “Heroin Was Our Badge” The Very Architecture of Cool The Uncoolest Thing in the World

Chapter 2: Breaking the Ice

The Rank Outsider A Hard Lesson in the Cool “Let Paris Come to Me” The Technician of Shock “It Was a Stampede” “Breaking the Ice”

Chapter 3: Somewhere Where It’s Cool

“This Guy is the Heat” A Parallel Universe Somewhere Where it’s Cool The Furthest Thing from Cool When Cool and Beat Were One Very Uncool in Texas Cool’s Tragic Shadow

Chapter 4: The Bodhisattvas of Cool

A Cool Revolution “Understanding Came Later—or not at All” Silence The Yen for Zen

Chapter 5: Signaling Through the Flames

Growing Up Absurd Cooler With a Saint The Whith Negroes Is This the Way Cool Passes from Black to White? Is This How Cool Enters the Mainstream? “A Cool Play”

Chapter 6: The Age of Cool

“Cool on Everything” Struggling to Remain Cool American Cool Cool on Everything

References

Selected Bibliography Selected Filmography Selected Discography Index Photography Credits

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