Miles to go, the lost years : an intimate memoir of life on the road with Miles Davis 1973-1983 / by Murphy, Chris, 1948-

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The origins of cool in postwar America / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Paris, 1949 -- Introduction: the origins of cool -- Lester Young and the birth of cool -- Humphrey Bogart and the birth of noir cool from the Great Depression -- Albert Camus and the birth of existential cool from the idea of rebellion (and the blues) -- Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir: toward a postwar cool for women -- Cool convergences, 1950: jazz, noir, existentialism -- A generational interlude: postwar II (1953-1963) and the shift in cool -- Kerouac and the cool mind: jazz and zen -- From noir cool to Vegas cool: swinging into prosperity with Frank Sinatra -- American rebel cool: Brando, Dean, Elvis -- Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis sound out cool individuality -- Hip versus cool in the Fugitive kind (1960) and Paris blues -- Lorraine Hansberry and the end of postwar cool -- Epilogue: the many lives of postwar cool.…”

Black popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Carby -- Popular culture and the economics of alienation / Julianne Malveaux -- Black texts/Black contexts / Tricia Rose -- Seizing the moving image : reflections of a Black independent producer / Ada Gay Griffin -- About face : the evolution of a Black producer / Thomas Allen Harris -- Preface to a one-hundred-and eighty volume patricide note : yet another few thousand words on the death of Miles Davis and the problem of the Black male genius / Greg Tate -- 69 / Arthur Jafa -- "Black is, Black ain't" : notes on de-essentializing Black identities / Isaac Julien -- Pan-American postnationalism : another world order / Coco Fusco -- Afro-kitsch / Manthia Diawara -- Race, identity, and political culture / Manning Marable.…”

Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation / by Norrell, Robert J.