Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356) and indexes.
Contents
I: New thoughts, new directions -- Sociocultural context -- Ideology -- Musical appropriation -- The transformation to bebop -- II: Bebop: Articulating language and identity -- Playing bebop -- General musical characteristics of bebop -- Bebop scales -- The musical language of Dizzy Gillespie -- The musical language of Charlie Parker -- The musical language of Thelonious Monk -- III: Articulating language and identity -- Cool jazz -- The musical language of Miles Davis -- The musical language of Stan Getz -- The musical language of Lennie Tristano.