Bebop to Cool Context, Ideology, and Musical Identity

Name: Bebop to Cool Context, Ideology, and Musical Identity
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ISBN: 9780313300714

ISBN-10: 0313300712

ISBN-13: 9780313300714

Edition: 2002

Authors: Eddie Meadows

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Bebop music is more than a jazz movement that seemed to have burst suddenly upon the jazz scene--it is an outgrowth of the sociocultural environment dating from the 1920s through the 1940s. In this consideration of the period and its music, noted jazz scholar Eddie S. Meadows traces the cultural and ideological context that produced Bebop and advocates that Cool Jazz was a reaction to Bebop, a natural outgrowth of its predecessor. Unlike most jazz research on the subject, Bebop to Cool features insider perspectives on both the social context of the music and the music itself, as a means of capturing the musical aesthetics and the cultural spirit of the time. The volume includes the…

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List price: $106.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



New Thoughts, New Directions



Sociocultural Context



Ideology



Musical Appropriation



The Transformation to Bebop



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



Cool: Articulating Language and Identity



Cool Jazz



The Musical Language of Miles Davis



The Musical Language of Stan Getz



The Musical Language of Lennie Tristano


Conclusion



Transcriptions Discussed in This Book


Glossary


References


Song Index


Subject Index