- Can cool ever be uncool?
- The mystery of my parents' lifestyle
- How cool became so
- The progenitor of cool : Bix Beiderbecke
- The president of cool : Lester Young
- The prince of darkness : Miles Davis
- The signifying bunny, or the birth (and death) of the cool for kids
- Everybody acts like Miles Davis
- Live by the swoosh, die by the swoosh
- America loses its cool
- The sound of postcool music
- The postcool society
- The birth (and death) of the cool : a timeline.