I also read this and enjoyed it. Interesting take on a
variety of hip subcultures. I didn't always agree with his
ideas, but the book was entertaining. I remember I read it
about the time the Bob Dylan documentary came out and it
dovetailed nicely with that. He seemed very knowledgeable
about hard-boiled crime fiction.
Jeff
> I recently read HIP: THE HISTORY, by John Leland
(2004), which is about
> hipness: hip as in Bird, Diz, Monk, Lou Reed, etc.
He goes to Wolof for
> the origin of the term, from "hepi" (to see) or
"hipi" (to open one's
> eyes). Hip is about knowing and being aware
(digging), he says: "an
> undercurrent of enlightenment, organized around
contradiction and
> anxieties." Cool is the mask hipness wears to stay
reserved and
> understated. These are hard terms to define, but he
does a good job.
> Even if you don't like them, you know what they
words mean, anyway.
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