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Author DeVeaux, Scott Knowles.

Title The birth of bebop : a social and musical history / Scott DeVeaux.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
©1997

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  ML3506.D48 B5 1997    Available  ---
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3506.D48 B5 1997    Available  ---
Description xv, 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-534), discographical references (pages 535-544), and index.
Contents part 1. College of music, Coleman Hawkins and the swing era. Progress and the bean ; The making of a virtuoso ; Out of step with swing -- part 2. Professionals after hours, young black musicians in the 1940s. Spitballs and tricky riffs ; The jazzman's true academy ; Wartime highs - and lows -- part 3. Taking advantage of the disadvantages, bop meets the market. Showcasing the real stuff ; The rush to record ; Eckstine and Herman : a contrast in fortunes ; Short stay in the sun -- Epilogue: unfinished business.
Subject Bop (Music) -- History and criticism.
Bop (Music)
Jazz -- 1931-1940 -- History and criticism.
Jazz.
Chronological Term 1931-1940
Subject Jazz -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1941-1950
Subject Music -- Social aspects.
Music -- Social aspects.
ISBN 0520205790