num_pages: 280
description:  Cool is a compendium of global youth subcultures and street styles from Flappers to Swing Kids to Goths to today s Normcore that have shaped the fashion zeitgeist. Its no secret that the youth of the world buck conventional mainstream culture every chance they get blazing countercultural trails in the process. Driven by their their thirst for art and music and their environment young people combine their inspirations with the innate desire to rebel resulting in a defiant subculture; and mainstream society runs to catch up to co-opt it and drag it to the mainstream. Lindy Hoppers of the 1930s greasers of the 1950s Rude Boys of the 1960s glam rockers of the 1970s club kids of the 1980s: there are countless subculture styles that were born from resisting authority. This book is equal parts historical chronicle and handbook of the myriad subculturesmost unknown to mainstream culturethat have influenced style. Authors Greg Foley and Andrew Luecke have compiled a comprehensive list of subcultures that have evolved over more than one hundred years taking a look at the fashion the art the films the books the music and historical context of these style movements many of which came to influence conventional culture and eventually became a norm. Lavish with original illustrations this book references a wealth of ephemeraincluding a timeline zeitgeist films zines secret music scenes art collectives and over one hundred streamable music playlists available on Apple Music tied to specific subcultures through the yearsto give the reader a thoroughly vibrant picture of each movement and their sub-movements. Cool is sure to appeal to fashionistas culture mavens and pop culture fans alike.
language: English
title: Cool: Style, Sound, and Subversion - Swing Kids to Seapunks, Rockabillies to Riot Grrls
publisher: Rizzoli