Del Close & John Brent: How To Speak Hip (1961)
Filed under booklet, sound recording | Tags: · hipster, language, satire
“This album captures the underground comedians at their early best and manages to both lampoon and accurately encapsulate the difference between hip and square society at the time. Unlike other mean-spirited comedy takes on the beatnik craze (Allan Sherman’s ‘The Rebel’ springs to mind), Close and Brent’s satire was close to the truth because they truly were bohemian spirits. John Brent wrote poetry and honed his ‘Geets Romo’ character (also known as ‘Huey the Hipster’) while acting in a Jules Feiffer play. Del Close was an actor and poetry director at the Gaslight. And they both became well-known as being early members of Chicago’s Second City.” (from the WFMU blog)
The album comes with “an illustrated booklet of complete instructions and a Dictionary of Hip. A Thorough reading of this Dictionary will familiarize you with a number of useful Hip expressions.” (from the liner notes)
Publisher Mercury, 1961
PDF (Booklet)
ZIP (Recording, zipped MP3s)
Listen online (on WFMU blog)
Jake Kinzey: The Sacred and the Profane: An Investigation of Hipsters (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · capitalism, counterculture, hip hop, hipster, music, neoliberalism
The Sacred and the Profane examines the hipster and the current cultural impasse by going beyond “going-against-the-grain.”
The Sacred and the Profane is a work that combines local and global analysis to examine our age’s often-talked about, but mostly misunderstood, mainstream subculture: the hipster. This book seeks to answer questions like, Why don’t hipsters want to be called hipsters? and Why do they act like they are different when they are just like all the other hipsters? If you can’t stand hipsters, are a hipster, or don’t know what a hipster is, this book is for you.
Publisher Zero Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, 2012
ISBN 1780990340, 9781780990347
68 pages
PDF (EPUB)
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