The cool school
About this book
In this anthology of memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the subterranean scenes and tribes that gave birth to cool: the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of the racially and sexually excluded, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks.
Subjects
Social life and customsMusicLiterature and societyAmerican essaysSocial aspectsAmerican prose literatureAmerican essays, 20th centuryMusic, social aspectsUnited states, social life and customsManners and customs