How To Speak Hip Del Close John Brent Comedy Album MP3s, CD, USB Drive
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The Original Unedited 1959 Comedy Album LP By Del Close And John Brent Satirizing The Speech Of The Hipsters Of The 1950s, Presented As An Archival Quality MP3 CD-ROM, File Download Or USB Flash Drive!
Contents:
01: Introduction
02: Basic Hip
03: Vocabulary Building
04: The Loose Wig
05: The Riff
06: The Hang: Up
07: Put On, Put Down, Come On, Come Down
08: Cool
09: Uncool
10: Field Trip No. 1
11: Field Trip No. 2
12: Field Trip No. 3
13: Summary
How To Speak Hip is a comedy album by Del Close and John Brent, released by Mercury Records in 1961. The album is designed as a satire of language-learning records, where the secret language of the 'hipster' is treated as a foreign language. Part of the joke, however, is that it actually does a good job of describing the Beat Generation/Beatnik sub-culture: Basic concepts such as "cool" and "uncool" are taught, as well as vocabulary building ("dig", "dig it", "dig yourself, baby", "dig the chick", "dig the cat", "What a drag!"). Many of the phrases and expressions survived to become elements of the counterculture vocabulary. Social notes are presented as for many language courses, and later in the album, the teacher (Close) is taken on field trips into the secret life of the hipster (Brent). However, the hipster rebels against participating in the teaching tool, leading to a humorously compromised teaching style. Track 12 contains an excerpt of 'We Free Kings' by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The album came with a booklet expanding on the concepts discussed in the album, providing a supplementary reading list, and so on. The album is illustrated in a style of line drawing popular throughout the 50s (similar to the early commercial work of Andy Warhol). The woodcuts used as illustrations on the LP were stolen from Close's Chicago apartment in the 1980s. An interest with hipster slang had been present in the mainstream culture since the late-30s/1940s when jazz music became a popular form. Cab Calloway released a recording of a song called the "Hepsters Dictionary" in 1938 (along with a published booklet). In the film Song Of the Thin Man (1947) the "straight" Nick and Nora have trouble following the jargon of the jazz musicians in the story. During the 1950s, as people became conscious of the Beat Generation phenomena, amid fears of juvenile delinquency, there was an increased urgency to understand the language spoken by the new youth culture. Brian Wilson can be heard fondly mentioning this album in the box set The Pet Sounds Sessions during the highlights of the recording sessions of the song "Hang On to Your Ego". The full working title for the album track "Let's Go Away for Awhile" was "Let's Go Away for Awhile (And Then We'll Have World Peace)," the parenthetical being an allusion to the album.
The Original Unedited 1959 Comedy Album LP By Del Close And John Brent Satirizing The Speech Of The Hipsters Of The 1950s, Presented As An Archival Quality MP3 CD-ROM, File Download Or USB Flash Drive!
Contents:
01: Introduction
02: Basic Hip
03: Vocabulary Building
04: The Loose Wig
05: The Riff
06: The Hang: Up
07: Put On, Put Down, Come On, Come Down
08: Cool
09: Uncool
10: Field Trip No. 1
11: Field Trip No. 2
12: Field Trip No. 3
13: Summary
How To Speak Hip is a comedy album by Del Close and John Brent, released by Mercury Records in 1961. The album is designed as a satire of language-learning records, where the secret language of the 'hipster' is treated as a foreign language. Part of the joke, however, is that it actually does a good job of describing the Beat Generation/Beatnik sub-culture: Basic concepts such as "cool" and "uncool" are taught, as well as vocabulary building ("dig", "dig it", "dig yourself, baby", "dig the chick", "dig the cat", "What a drag!"). Many of the phrases and expressions survived to become elements of the counterculture vocabulary. Social notes are presented as for many language courses, and later in the album, the teacher (Close) is taken on field trips into the secret life of the hipster (Brent). However, the hipster rebels against participating in the teaching tool, leading to a humorously compromised teaching style. Track 12 contains an excerpt of 'We Free Kings' by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The album came with a booklet expanding on the concepts discussed in the album, providing a supplementary reading list, and so on. The album is illustrated in a style of line drawing popular throughout the 50s (similar to the early commercial work of Andy Warhol). The woodcuts used as illustrations on the LP were stolen from Close's Chicago apartment in the 1980s. An interest with hipster slang had been present in the mainstream culture since the late-30s/1940s when jazz music became a popular form. Cab Calloway released a recording of a song called the "Hepsters Dictionary" in 1938 (along with a published booklet). In the film Song Of the Thin Man (1947) the "straight" Nick and Nora have trouble following the jargon of the jazz musicians in the story. During the 1950s, as people became conscious of the Beat Generation phenomena, amid fears of juvenile delinquency, there was an increased urgency to understand the language spoken by the new youth culture. Brian Wilson can be heard fondly mentioning this album in the box set The Pet Sounds Sessions during the highlights of the recording sessions of the song "Hang On to Your Ego". The full working title for the album track "Let's Go Away for Awhile" was "Let's Go Away for Awhile (And Then We'll Have World Peace)," the parenthetical being an allusion to the album.