Joel Dinerstein
Author of The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
About the Author
Joel Dinerstein is the author of three books on cool, including American Cool and Coach: A Story of New York Cool, as well as Swinging the Machines, a cultural history of technology and American music. He is professor of English and American Studies at Tulane University.
Works by Joel Dinerstein
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- Birthdate
- 1958-11-13
- Gender
- male
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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
On a very short list of the contemporary cultural criticism I actually admire. I don't agree with all of Dinerstein's ideas, either inside or outside of this work, but I'm an enormous consumer of post-WWII American and French culture, and he treats the subject of post-WWII cool convincingly.
How John Henry was avenged: bebop, boogie-woogie, and the lindy hop as “survival technologyâ€? for a machine age. And I thought swing music was invented to sell khakis.
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