The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A

The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication
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Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn Oâ€™Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century Americaâ€”the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. Whether labeled as Bop or Beat or Punk, these outsider voices ignored or suppressed by the mainstream would merge and recombine in unpredictable ways, and change American culture forever.
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To read The Cool School is to experience the energies of that vortex. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, Oâ€™Brien creates an unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others, including such legendary figures as Beat avatar Neal Cassady, jazz memoirist Babs Gonzales, inspired comic improviser Lord Buckley, no-holds-barred essayist Seymour Krim, and underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His one-of-a-kind anthology recreates an unforgettable era in all its hallucinatory splendor: transgressive, raucous, unruly, harrowing, and often subversively hilarious.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781598532562
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2013-10-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598532562

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781598532562
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2013-10-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598532562

The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication

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