Joel Dinerstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 784990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Dinerstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dinerstein |
| SIGNATURE | DINERSTEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Listening for Africa
Reviewed by: Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins by David F. García Joel Dinerstein David F. García. Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins. Durham: Duke UP, 2017. 376 pp. $27.95. David F. García asks a question that has been hiding in plain sight about the creation of modern Afrodiasporic identity: “When black music and dance sounded and embodi…
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
Cool'. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. 'The Origins of Cool in Postwar America' uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebell…
The cultural career of coolness
Introduction, by Ulla Haselstein and Irmela Hijiya-Kischnereit Part I: Coolness in Antiquity Chapter 1: Emotionally challenged, wisely detached, or incredibly cool? On Stoic Apathy, by Catherine Newmark Chapter 2: Roman Cool, by Daniel L. Selden Part II: American Cool Chapter 3: The Cultural Career of Coolness, by Ulla Haselstein Chapter 4: Kinds of Emotions and the Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionism, by Catrin Gersdorf Chapter …
Jazzocrazy
Book Review| July 01 2010 Jazzocrazy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology Jazzocrazy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology. By Kabir Sehgal. Mishawaka, Indiana: Better World Books, 2008. ISBN: 978-0615-17693-2. Cloth. 264 pp. $21.95. Joel Dinerstein Joel Dinerstein Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2010) 28 (2): 255–256. https://doi.org/1…
Uncle Tom is Dead
"Uncle Tom is Dead!":Wright, Himes, and Ellison Lay a Mask to Rest Joel Dinerstein (bio) In his recent valorization of Uncle Tom's Cabin as "the ur-text in the fictional depiction of Americans across the color line" (xxvii), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explained that the novel's demise in the college classroom was due to "the utter disdain of the Tom character by the black community" in the postwar era (xxvi). For Gates as for Linda Williams, the text…
Second Lining Post-Katrina
This article is an analysis of African-American second-line parades in New Orleans and an autoethnography of the first major post-Katrina parade. At a moment of crisis, The Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club raised funds to sponsor its annual parade and help rejuvenate local cultural spirit. The article defines a weekly second-line parade as a “mobile block party,” a four-hour and five-mile long community celebration that carnivalizes a…
The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream
Research Article| December 01 2007 The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream Joel Dinerstein Joel Dinerstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2007) 25 (4): 441–476. https://doi.org/10.2307/40071678 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joel Dinerstein; The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream. American Music 1 December 2007;…
Blowin' Hot and Cool
Book Review| December 01 2007 Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics; Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing; Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature Joel Dinerstein Joel Dinerstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 862–864. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-058 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …
Technology and Its Discontents
Immediately marized coming war on terrorism as [their] theology versus [our] technology, suicide bomber against nuclear power.1 His statement missed point: is American theology. For Americans, it is not Christian God but that structures American sense of power and revenge, nation's abstract sense of well-being, its arrogant sense of superiority, and its righteous justification for global dominance. In introduction to Technological Visions, Marita…
Music, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Jazz Age
We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. By Mark Robert Schneider. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. 472 pages. $35.00 (cloth). Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. By Paul Allen Anderson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 360 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young. By Douglas Henry Daniels. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. 524 …
Technology and Its Discontents
Immediately marized coming war on terrorism as [their] theology versus [our] technology, suicide bomber against nuclear power.1 His statement missed point: is American theology. For Americans, it is not Christian God but that structures American sense of power and revenge, nation's abstract sense of well-being, its arrogant sense of superiority, and its righteous justification for global dominance. In introduction to Technological Visions, Marita…
Second Lining Post-Katrina
This article is an analysis of African-American second-line parades in New Orleans and an autoethnography of the first major post-Katrina parade. At a moment of crisis, The Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club raised funds to sponsor its annual parade and help rejuvenate local cultural spirit. The article defines a weekly second-line parade as a “mobile block party,” a four-hour and five-mile long community celebration that carnivalizes a…
Uncle Tom is Dead
"Uncle Tom is Dead!":Wright, Himes, and Ellison Lay a Mask to Rest Joel Dinerstein (bio) In his recent valorization of Uncle Tom's Cabin as "the ur-text in the fictional depiction of Americans across the color line" (xxvii), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explained that the novel's demise in the college classroom was due to "the utter disdain of the Tom character by the black community" in the postwar era (xxvi). For Gates as for Linda Williams, the text…
Music, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Jazz Age
We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. By Mark Robert Schneider. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. 472 pages. $35.00 (cloth). Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. By Paul Allen Anderson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 360 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young. By Douglas Henry Daniels. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. 524 …
Technology and Its Discontents
Immediately marized coming war on terrorism as [their] theology versus [our] technology, suicide bomber against nuclear power.1 His statement missed point: is American theology. For Americans, it is not Christian God but that structures American sense of power and revenge, nation's abstract sense of well-being, its arrogant sense of superiority, and its righteous justification for global dominance. In introduction to Technological Visions, Marita…
The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream
Research Article| December 01 2007 The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream Joel Dinerstein Joel Dinerstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2007) 25 (4): 441–476. https://doi.org/10.2307/40071678 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joel Dinerstein; The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream. American Music 1 December 2007;…
Blowin' Hot and Cool
Book Review| December 01 2007 Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics; Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing; Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature Joel Dinerstein Joel Dinerstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 862–864. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-058 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …
Uncle Tom is Dead
"Uncle Tom is Dead!":Wright, Himes, and Ellison Lay a Mask to Rest Joel Dinerstein (bio) In his recent valorization of Uncle Tom's Cabin as "the ur-text in the fictional depiction of Americans across the color line" (xxvii), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explained that the novel's demise in the college classroom was due to "the utter disdain of the Tom character by the black community" in the postwar era (xxvi). For Gates as for Linda Williams, the text…
Second Lining Post-Katrina
This article is an analysis of African-American second-line parades in New Orleans and an autoethnography of the first major post-Katrina parade. At a moment of crisis, The Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club raised funds to sponsor its annual parade and help rejuvenate local cultural spirit. The article defines a weekly second-line parade as a “mobile block party,” a four-hour and five-mile long community celebration that carnivalizes a…
Jazzocrazy
Book Review| July 01 2010 Jazzocrazy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology Jazzocrazy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology. By Kabir Sehgal. Mishawaka, Indiana: Better World Books, 2008. ISBN: 978-0615-17693-2. Cloth. 264 pp. $21.95. Joel Dinerstein Joel Dinerstein Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2010) 28 (2): 255–256. https://doi.org/1…
The cultural career of coolness
Introduction, by Ulla Haselstein and Irmela Hijiya-Kischnereit Part I: Coolness in Antiquity Chapter 1: Emotionally challenged, wisely detached, or incredibly cool? On Stoic Apathy, by Catherine Newmark Chapter 2: Roman Cool, by Daniel L. Selden Part II: American Cool Chapter 3: The Cultural Career of Coolness, by Ulla Haselstein Chapter 4: Kinds of Emotions and the Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionism, by Catrin Gersdorf Chapter …
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
Cool'. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. 'The Origins of Cool in Postwar America' uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebell…
Listening for Africa
Reviewed by: Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins by David F. García Joel Dinerstein David F. García. Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins. Durham: Duke UP, 2017. 376 pp. $27.95. David F. García asks a question that has been hiding in plain sight about the creation of modern Afrodiasporic identity: “When black music and dance sounded and embodi…
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