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boys…have a 'cool' way of walking in which the upper trunk and pelvis rock fore and aft while the head remains stable with the eyes looking straight ahead. The…walk is quite slow, and the Negroes take it as a way of 'strutting' or 'showing
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in the early nineteenth century, who noted "thumping ecstasy" and "intense solemnity of mien." The mask of the cool, or facial serenity, has been noted at many points in Afro-American history:
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continent is vast and its peoples diverse, certain standards of beauty and correctness in artistic expression and physical appearance are held in common among various African societies.
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The mind of an elder within the body of the young is suggested by the striking African custom of dancing "hot" with a "cool" unsmiling face. This quality seems to have haunted
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It is interesting that what remains a spiritual principle in some parts of Africa and the rare African-influenced portions of the modern U.S.A., such as
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Taken collectively, these values and standards have been characterised as comprising a generally accepted
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The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Traditions (Contributions in Afro- and African-American Studies)
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in 1673 and it struck the imagination of an early observer of strongly African-influenced dancing in
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Adams, M. (1989). "African visual arts from an art historical perspective".
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The cool style of male walking in the United States is called
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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urban culture an element of contemporary street behavior:
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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turns his attention to cool in both the African and
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African
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Robert Farris Thompson
African-American
Ten Rhyne
Cape
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Georgia
Afro-American
Negro
Cool (aesthetic)
Get down
Itutu
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