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''How to Speak Hip'' is a spoken-word comedy album by Del Close and John Brent, released by Mercury Records in 1959. == Description == 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 was 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「How to Speak Hip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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