American Cool Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style

• Egile nagusia: Stearns, Peter N. (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: NYU Press 1994
• Gaiak: History of the Americas; History
• Sarrera elektronikoa: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestat...