Bebop to cool : context, ideology, and musical identity / Eddie S. Meadows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meadows, Eddie S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bop (Music)--History and criticism.

Bop (Music).

Cool jazz--History and criticism.

Cool jazz.

Jazz--Social aspects--United States.

Jazz.

Jazz--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxix, 383 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.

Summary:

Traces the cultural and ideological context that produced Bebop music, from the 1920s though the period of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, and many other revolutionary musicians.

Contents:

I. New Thoughts, New Directions 1

1. Sociocultural Context 3

2. Ideology 21

3. Musical Appropriation 47

4. The Transformation to Bebop 59

II. Bebop: Articulating Language and Identity 91

5. Playing Bebop 93

6. General Musical Characteristics of Bebop 113

7. Bebop Scales 135

8. The Musical Language of Dizzy Gillespie 159

9. The Musical Language of Charlie Parker 173

10. The Musical Language of Thelonious Monk 219

III. Cool: Articulating Language and Identity 241

11. Cool Jazz 243

12. The Musical Language of Miles Davis 275

13. The Musical Language of Stan Getz 301

14. The Musical Language of Lennie Tristano 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-356) and indexes.

ISBN:

0313300712

OCLC:

49711739