Joel Dinerstein

Joel Dinerstein is a cultural historian and Professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is the author of Jazz: A Quick Immersion (2020), The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (Chicago 2017), American Cool (Prestel 2014), Swinging the Machine (2003), and Coach: A Story of NY Cool (Rizzoli 2016). He was the curator for the acclaimed exhibit American Cool at the National Portrait Gallery (2014), and his Ted Talk on cool is "Why Cool Matters." He has served as a consultant on jazz and popular music for the NEH, HBO (Boardwalk Empire), and Putumayo Records. His first book was an award-winning study of jazz and industrialization, Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African-American Culture (2003). Dinerstein holds a Ph.D in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and Erasmus Hall High School. http://www.joeldinerstein.com/