Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prelude 1
4. Introduction 7
5. 1 Lester Young and the Birth of Cool 37
6. 2 Humphrey Bogart and the Birth of Noir Cool from the Great Depression 73
7. 3 Albert Camus and the Birth of Existential Cool from the Idea of Rebellion (and the Blues) 121
8. 4 Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir 165
9. 5 Cool Convergences, 1950 187
10. A Generational Interlude 225
11. 6 Kerouac and the Cool Mind: Jazz and Zen 239
12. 7 From Noir Cool to Vegas Cool 271
13. 8 American Rebel Cool 307
14. 9 Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis Sound Out Cool Individuality 347
15. 10 Hip versus Cool in The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Paris Blues (1962) 383
16. 11 Lorraine Hansberry and the End of Postwar Cool 403
17. Epilogue 439
18. Acknowledgments 461
19. Notes 465
20. Index 529