02795nam 2200577Ia 450 991082295530332120230731200812.01-283-59952-X97866139119710-7391-4847-8(CKB)2670000000241761(EBL)1021898(OCoLC)817812585(SSID)ssj0000711149(PQKBManifestationID)12258972(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711149(PQKBWorkID)10682260(PQKB)11508966(MiAaPQ)EBC1021898(Au-PeEL)EBL1021898(CaPaEBR)ebr10602247(CaONFJC)MIL391197(EXLCZ)99267000000024176120100909d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe cool-kawaii Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity /Thorsten Botz-BornsteinLanham, Md. :Lexington Books,2011.1 online resource (xxviii, 209 pages)0-7391-4845-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Cool and Kawaii; 2: New World Modernity; 3: Aspects of Cuteness; 4: Cross Gender Tendencies in Cool and Kawaii; 5: Coolness between Virtue Ethics and Aesthetics; 6: The Temptation of Kitsch; 7: Kitsch in Japan: Tradition and Modernity; 8: Cool and Dandyism: Two Words-One Concept; 9: Dandyism, Consumer Society, and Virtual Reality; Conclusion: A Dialectics of Cool and Kawaii?; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorThe Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes and compares African American cool culture and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute and characterizes them as expressions set against oppressive homogenizations of a technocratic world. The Cool-Kawaii sheds light on the history and development of both cultures in three main ways: First, both emerge from similar historical conditions; second, both are in search of human dignity and liberation, and finally, both kawaii and African American cool establish a new kind of modernityAestheticsPopular cultureJapanJapanCivilizationAmerican influencesJapanCivilization21st centuryAesthetics.Popular culture306.0952Botz-Bornstein Thorsten901351MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822955303321The cool-kawaii4091928UNINA