Aesthetic of the Cool
* Though this book is not exclusively about jazz dance, Jazz Dance Direct considers it a significant text in the study of jazz dance aesthetics.
Publisher's Description:
In this generously illustrated book, scholar and teacher Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of cool--not cool the adjective--cool the aesthetic; the cool fundamental to the culture of the Black Atlantic and expressed in ideals of balance and control; the cool of “creative matters, full of motion and brilliance”; the cool of individual and social responsibility.
