The word “cool” emerged out of 1940s American jazz culture known as bebop. Bob Yurochko observes: “[One] phenomenon that rose from bebop [o...

Just as television in the 1960s helped popularize science fiction, by means of shows such as The Twilight Zone , The Outer Limits , and Star...

That grand wild sound of bop floated from beer parlors; it mixed medleys with every kind of cowboy and boogie-woogie in the American night. ...