Question
Lester Young is credited as the first person to use this word to refer to a state of relaxation. For 10 points each:
[10e] What word names a style of jazz that is more calm and soft than bebop? Miles Davis pioneered that genre in his album titled for the “Birth of” this word.
ANSWER: cool [accept cool jazz or Birth of the Cool]
[10m] This thinker discussed how black men “withstand heat” by adopting a “cool pose,” sometimes at the expense of blocking out emotions, in the book We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity.
ANSWER: bell hooks [or Gloria Jean Watkins]
[10h] This art historian, who traced Black American usage of “cool” in his essay “An Aesthetic of the Cool,” discussed how the concept of itutu, or “mystical coolness,” influenced Yoruban art in his book Flash of the Spirit.
ANSWER: Robert Farris Thompson
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| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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