Birth of the Cool - Music Book Challenge

Music Book Challenge #9. Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant Garde by Lewis MacAdams, 2001. I read this brilliant book right after it was released in March 2001. Today I posted a brief review on Bluesky as part of my Music Book Challenge. This is the 9th book I posted in this series. A few of them I've posted on this blog many years ago.

When cool happened. A cultural history of the avant garde 1940s-1950s and went way beyond just what was happening in music at the time. I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was music, art, films and the culture of the time. Learned a lot too.

It was great working in a library and helping to select books like this which allowed me to read it right away. Yes, it was cool.