The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is Tom Wolfe’s groundbreaking 1965 collection of New Journalism essays that vividly chronicles American pop culture, consumerism, and social change in the early 1960s.
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| The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
essay collection
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Tom Wolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can’t Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!!
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The Fifth Beatle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girl of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (title essay) NERFINISHED ⓘ There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| depicts |
American advertising culture
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emerging celebrity icons of the 1960s ⓘ mass media spectacle ⓘ |
| describedAs |
groundbreaking collection of essays
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landmark work of American non-fiction ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
celebrity culture
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custom car culture ⓘ status symbols in American life ⓘ youth culture ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
New Journalism
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literary journalism ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
highly descriptive prose
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satirical tone ⓘ use of onomatopoeia and exclamation ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of New Journalism in the 1960s
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later narrative non-fiction writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | New Journalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
American pop culture
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consumerism ⓘ social change in the United States ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering use of fictional techniques in journalism
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vivid narrative style ⓘ |
| partOf | Tom Wolfe bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy | Tom Wolfe’s magazine journalism of the early 1960s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 1960s ⓘ |
| timeOfContext |
postwar American prosperity
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pre-counterculture 1960s America ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | slang description of a customized car paint job ⓘ |
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