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Books by Joel Dinerstein






Swinging the Machine(1st Edition)
Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
by Joel Dinerstein
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-383-4, ISBN: 1-55849-383-2

"In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives. According to Joel Dinerstein, it was no different in America between the two World Wars-an era sometimes known as the "machine age"-when innovative forms of music and dance helped a newly urbanized population cope with the increased mechanization of modern life. Grand spectacles such as the Ziegfeld Follies and the movies ..."






The Origins of Cool in Postwar America(1st Edition)
by Joel Dinerstein
Hardcover, 541 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-15265-3, ISBN: 0-226-15265-0

"Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual ..."






Coach
A Story of New York Cool
by Joel Dinerstein, Deborah Harry, Stuart Vevers
Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 2016 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-4977-2, ISBN: 0-8478-4977-5

"Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of this iconic luxury fashion brand, this book presents a vibrant visual survey of Coach s continual exploration and redefinition of American style, infused with its distinctively cool New York City spirit. At the heart of Coach, arguably one the world s most recognizable fashion brands, is its effortless New York style, cutting-edge design, craftsmanship, and authenticity. This volume explores ..."






The Cultural Career of Coolness(Updated)
Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan
by Ulla Haselstein, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Catrin Gersdorf, Elena Giannoulis, Sophia Frese, Jens Heise, Michael Kinski, Catherine Newmark, Paul Roquet, Daniel Selden, Professor Jim Mcguigan, Joel Dinerstein, Aviad E. Raz, Raz/Haselstein/Hijiy, Lexington Books
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7316-9, ISBN: 0-7391-7316-2

"Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term “cool?" When has coolness come to be associated with certain modes of contemporary self-fashioning? On what grounds do certain nations claim ..."






Jazz(1st Edition)
a Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)
by Dinerstein, Joel
Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2020 by Tibidabo Publishing, Inc
ISBN-13: 978-1-949845-15-0, ISBN: 1-949845-15-X

"This book focuses on jazz's development in the African-American communities of five cities - New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, New York, and Los Angeles - through a combination of urban studies, historical context, and key profiles of ..."






The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Dinerstein, Joel(Reprint)
by Dinerstein, Joel
549 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-59906-9, ISBN: 0-226-59906-X

"This is the first work to trace the history of cool during the Cold War by exploring the intersections of film noir, jazz, existential literature, Method acting, blues, and rock and roll."






Swinging the Machine
Modernity, Technology and African American Culture Between the World Wars (Hardback)
by Joel Dinerstein
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-373-5, ISBN: 1-55849-373-5

"... himself had condemned in Winesburg, Ohio(iQig); Hecht noted that Anderson did not spend much time in the 193os in cities, ... Ray Lewis White, ed., Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs: A Critical Edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina ... Janet Groth and David Castronovo (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995), 108-16; Chase, Men and Machines, 272-78, and ... 1934, 1,12; Geoffrey Freeman Allen, Railways of the Twentieth Centu ..."






The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
by Joel Dinerstein
Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45343-9, ISBN: 0-226-45343-X

"Albert Camus, The Stranger (New York: Vintage International, 1989), 3. 67. Matthew Ward, “Translator's Note,” in Camus, ... Walker Percy's lecture notes, Camus Folder, Walker Percy Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 71. Beauvoir, America Day by Day, 55; ... See, e.g., Walter Redfern, “Praxis and Parapraxis: Sartre's 'Le Mur,'” in Jean-Paul Sartre Modern Critical View ..."






Long Walk Home
Reflections on Bruce Springsteen
by Jonathan D. Cohen, Natalie Adler, June Skinner Sawyers, Eric Alterman, Regina Barreca, Nancy Bishop, Dermot Bolger, Jefferson Cowie, Jim Cullen, Joel Dinerstein, Martyn Joseph, Deepa Iyer, Greil Marcus, Louis Masur, Paul Muldoon, Lauren Onkey, Richard Russo, Colleen Sheehy, Wesley Stace, Frank Stefanko, Irwin Streight, Wayne Swan, Elijah Wald, Daniel Wolff, Kenneth Womack, Peter Ames Carlin, Gillian G. Gaar, A. O. Scott, David L. Ulin, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978805-26-2, ISBN: 1-978805-26-8

"Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music.   Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics l ..."






American Cool(1st Edition)
by Joel Dinerstein, Frank Henry Goodyear
Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 2014 by Prestel
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5349-4, ISBN: 3-7913-5349-7

"What does it mean when we say someone is cool? This luminous collection of portraits and film stills sheds new light on the term, its origins, and its evolution--with some surprising and provocative results. The term "cool" has become such a part of America's modern lexicon that it seems to have lost its meaning. This stellar collection of photographs from the National Portrait Gallery and from prominent artists, museums, and archives n ..."






JAZZ
by DINERSTEIN, JOEL
Softcover, Published 2023 by Tibidabo Ediciones S.A.
ISBN-13: 978-84-19683-63-2, ISBN: 84-19683-63-9






JAZZ
by DINERSTEIN, JOEL
Softcover, Published 2020 by Tibidabo Ediciones
ISBN-13: 978-84-13-47572-1, ISBN: 84-13-47572-4

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