Cool
'Cool' - Laurie Taylor explores its origins and meaning.
'Cool' - Laurie Taylor traces the trajectory of the notion of ‘cool’ with Joel Dinerstein, Professor of English and American Studies at Tulane University, and author of a study which suggests it originated in American jazz clubs as a stylish defence against racism and cross fertilised with French existentialism and film noir.
Also, ‘cool shades’: Vanessa Brown, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, explores the enduring appeal of sunglasses as the ultimate signifiers of ‘cool’ in mass culture.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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– Professor of English and American Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans
- ÌýSenior Lecturer in Design and Visual CultureÌýÌý at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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°Õ³ó±ðÌýOrigins of CoolÌýin Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein (University of Chicago Press) by JOEL DINERSTEIN
Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses byÌýÌýÌý(Bloomsbury Academic) by VANESSA BROWN
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- Wed 23 Oct 2019 16:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Mon 28 Oct 2019 00:15Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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