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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 ... collection, Glenn O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America--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 ...

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The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication 2013, Library of America, New York

ISBN-13: 9781598532562

Hardcover