I give talks on cool, race, music, New Orleans, and American identity.
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Ted Talk: Why Cool Matters
The French have chic but Americans invented cool. A journey through Miles Davis, Dylan, Patti Smith, Elvis, Prince, and Johnny Cash.
New Orleans Music and Culture
Is Cool Dead?
The future of cool belongs to millennials and women.
The Origins of Cool
The origins of a rebel sensibility for our consumer culture.
AUDIO/VIDEO
BBC’s The Forum — Cool: Shades, Style, and American Counterculture — 2018
The Reading Life, WWNO New Orleans
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU-FM, Washington DC, August 11, 2014
Joel Dinerstein discusses the American Cool exhibit he curated at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.